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SUBMITTER: Ehrenshaft M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC201721 | biostudies-other | 1994 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Applied and environmental microbiology 19940801 8
We have cloned and sequenced the Cercospora nicotianae gene for the carotenoid biosynthetic enzyme phytoene dehydrogenase. Analysis of the derived amino acid sequence revealed it has greater than 50% identity with its counterpart in Neurospora crassa and approximately 30% identity with prokaryotic phytoene dehydrogenases and is related, but more distantly, to phytoene dehydrogenases from plants and cyanobacteria. Our analysis confirms that phytoene dehydrogenase proteins fall into two groups: th ...[more]