The phrase "a gene coding for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in scientific or biological contexts to describe a gene that is responsible for producing a specific protein or trait.
Example: "The research focused on a gene coding for the production of insulin in the human body."
Alternatives: "a gene responsible for" or "a gene that encodes".
MBs were designed to recognize a 19-bp region of the uid A gene, coding for an enzyme β-glucuronidase.
Imagine that a new advantageous mutation occurs on Chromosome 4, right next to, say, a gene coding for bushy eyebrows and a gene coding for black hair.
However, in the green spotted puffer (Tetraodon nigroviridis), a gene coding for ezh1 could be identified (ENSTNIG00000011694) while ezh2 seems to be absent.
Microarray analysis revealed that GIMAP5, a gene coding for an anti-apoptotic intracellular protein, is upregulated by Notch in T-ALL cell lines.
Studies presented herein indicate that enterocyte targeting with a gene coding for a short antisense against iron transport blocks enterocyte iron uptake, which may have therapeutic value.
Such an expression manner was distinguished from that of a gene coding for A-type cyclin (Ntcyc 25), indicating that NtEPb genes are not under cell cycle control.
Sickle cell disease is a recessive genetic disorder caused by a single mutation in both copies of a gene coding for beta-globin, a protein that forms part of the oxygen-carrying molecule hemoglobin.
Xeroderma pigmentosum, a severe hereditary disease of humans, is caused by a mutation in a gene coding for one of the thymine dimer repair enzymes.
Molecular characterization of TRP1, a gene coding for tryptophan synthetase in the basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus.
In one strain, mice lack one of two copies of a gene coding for a protein that binds insulin.
Moreover the genes coding for a carbamoylase and a dihydropyrimidinase for Aminobacter sp. DSM24754 and a gene coding for another dihydropyrimidinase for Aminobacter sp. DSM24755 are described.
