A prokaryotic gene cluster involved in synthesis of lysine through the amino adipate pathway: A key to the evolution of amino acid biosynthesis

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1175-1183

  Nishida, Hiromi ^a   Nishiyama, Makoto ^a   Kobashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Kosuge, Takehide ^b   Hoshino, Takayuki ^b   Yamane, Hisakazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPIC ACID; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; LEUCINE; LYSINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DISRUPTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROCOCCUS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

2-AMINOADIPIC ACID; AMINO ACIDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, BACTERIAL; LYSINE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PYROCOCCUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; LEUCISCUS IDUS; PROKARYOTA; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0033404080     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.9.12.1175     Document Type: Article

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