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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Nishida H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3356886 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
International journal of evolutionary biology 20120508
Thermus thermophilus biosynthesizes lysine through the α-aminoadipate (AAA) pathway: this observation was the first discovery of lysine biosynthesis through the AAA pathway in archaea and bacteria. Genes homologous to the T. thermophilus lysine biosynthetic genes are widely distributed in bacteria of the Deinococcus-Thermus phylum. Our phylogenetic analyses strongly suggest that a common ancestor of the Deinococcus-Thermus phylum had the ancestral genes for bacterial lysine biosynthesis through ...[more]