The histidine operon is ancient [2]

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 807-808

  Price, Morgan N ^a,b   Alm, Eric J ^b,e   Arkin, Adam P ^a,b,c,d  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Virtual Institute of Microbial Stress and Survival   (United States)

^c University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CRENARCHAEOTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EURYARCHAEOTA; EVOLUTION; GENOME; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

HISTIDINE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; TIME;

EID: 33744939200     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0191-3     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Bond JP, Francklyn CF (2000) Proteobacterial histidine-biosynthetic pathways are paraphyletic. J Mol Evol 50:339-347
2. Fani R, Brilli M, Lio P (2005) The origin and evolution of operons: the piecewise building of the proteobacterial histidine operon. J Mol Evol 60:370-390