Re-citrate synthase from Clostridium kluyveri is phylogenetically related to homocitrate synthase and isopropylmalate synthase rather than to Si-citrate synthase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4299-4304

  Li, Fuli ^a   Hagemeier, Christoph H ^a   Seedorf, Henning ^a   Gottschalk, Gerhard ^b   Thauer, Rudolf K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; CITRATE SYNTHASE; CITRIC ACID; HOMOCITRATE SYNTHASE; ISOPROPYLMALATE SYNTHASE; OXALOACETIC ACID; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM KLUYVERI; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSPECIFICITY;

2-ISOPROPYLMALATE SYNTHASE; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; CITRATES; CLOSTRIDIUM KLUYVERI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXALOACETATE; OXO-ACID-LYASES; PHYLOGENY; STEREOISOMERISM;

CLOSTRIDIUM KLUYVERI;

EID: 34249796380     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00198-07     Document Type: Article

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