A 5-formyltetrahydrofolate cycloligase paralog from all domains of life: Comparative genomic and experimental evidence for a cryptic role in thiamin metabolism

Functional and Integrative Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 467-478

  Pribat, Anne ^a   Blaby, Ian K ^a   Lara Núñez, Aurora ^b   Jeanguenin, Linda ^a   Fouquet, Romain ^a   Frelin, Océane ^a   Gregory III, Jesse F ^b   Philmus, Benjamin ^c   Begley, Tadhg P ^c   De Crécy Lagard, Valérie ^a   Hanson, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

At1g76730; Chloroplast; COG0212; Folate; Thiamin

Indexed keywords

5 FORMYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE CYCLOLIGASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FOLIC ACID; FOLINIC ACID; LIGASE; PROTEIN COG0212; THIAMINE; THIAMINE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOINFORMATICS; CHLOROPLAST; COG0212 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO GROWTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GROWTH RETARDATION; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; CHLOROPLASTS; ENZYME ASSAYS; FOLIC ACID; GENE DELETION; GENOMICS; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; THIAMINE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 80053946165     PISSN: 1438793X     EISSN: 14387948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10142-011-0224-5     Document Type: Article

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