Evolutionary process of amino acid biosynthesis in Corynebacterium at the whole genome level

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1683-1691

  Nishio, Yousuke ^a   Nakamura, Yoji ^b   Usuda, Yoshihiro ^a   Sugimoto, Shinichi ^a   Matsui, Kazuhiko ^a   Kawarabayasi, Yutaka ^c   Kikuchi, Hisashi ^d   Gojobori, Takashi ^b   Ikeo, Kazuho ^b  

^a AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND EVALUATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid biosynthesis; Comparative genomics; Corynebacterium; Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM EFFICIENS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; FERMENTATION TECHNIQUE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOMYCES; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACIDS; BASE COMPOSITION; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM EFFICIENS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 4143054574     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh175     Document Type: Article

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