The primordial metabolism: An ancestral interconnection between leucine, arginine, and lysine biosynthesis

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Fondi, Marco ^a   Brilli, Matteo ^a   Emiliani, Giovanni ^a   Paffetti, Donatella ^a   Fani, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMORDIUM; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM; BIOGENESIS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

ARCHAEA; ARGININE; BACTERIA; BIOGENESIS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; LEUCINE; LYSINE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 34648851384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-S2-S3     Document Type: Article

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