Bioinformatic analysis of an unusual gene-enzyme relationship in the arginine biosynthetic pathway among marine gamma proteobacteria: Implications concerning the formation of N-acetylated intermediates in prokaryotes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Xu, Ying ^a   Glansdorff, Nicolas ^b   Labedan, Bernard ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ARGININE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBAMATE KINASE; GLUTAMATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; RNA 16S; ARGININOSUCCINATE LYASE;

ACETYLATION; ALTEROMONAS; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOINFORMATICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; IDIOMARIA LOIHIENSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS HALOPLANKTIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; VIBRIO; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORITELLA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

ALTEROMONAS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; IDIOMARINA; MORITELLA; MORITELLA ABYSSI; MORITELLA PROFUNDA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS HALOPLANKTIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STREPTOMYCES; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; VERTEBRATA; VIBRIO;

ACETYLATION; ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGININE; ARGININOSUCCINATE LYASE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE FUSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORITELLA; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 33644598844     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-4     Document Type: Article

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