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SUBMITTER: Lu GT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2681908 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lu Guang-Tao GT Tang Yong-Qin YQ Li Cai-Yue CY Li Rui-Fang RF An Shi-Qi SQ Feng Jia-Xun JX He Yong-Qiang YQ Jiang Bo-Le BL Tang Dong-Jie DJ Tang Ji-Liang JL
Journal of bacteriology 20090327 11
Adenosine kinase (ADK) is a purine salvage enzyme and a typical housekeeping enzyme in eukaryotes which catalyzes the phosphorylation of adenosine to form AMP. Since prokaryotes synthesize purines de novo and no endogenous ADK activity is detectable in Escherichia coli, ADK has long been considered to be rare in bacteria. To date, only two prokaryotes, both of which are gram-positive bacteria, have been reported to contain ADK. Here we report that the gram-negative bacterium Xanthomonas campestr ...[more]