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- Brouns, Stan J. J., et al.
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Identification of the missing links in prokaryotic pentose oxidation pathways : evidence for enzyme recruitment
- 2006
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Ingår i: Journal of Biological Chemistry. - 0021-9258 .- 1083-351X. ; 281:37, s. 27378-27388
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The pentose metabolism of Archaea is largely unknown. Here, we have employed an integrated genomics approach including DNA microarray and proteomics analyses to elucidate the catabolic pathway for D-arabinose in Sulfolobus solfataricus. During growth on this sugar, a small set of genes appeared to be differentially expressed compared with growth on D-glucose. These genes were heterologously overexpressed in Escherichia coli, and the recombinant proteins were purified and biochemically studied. This showed that D-arabinose is oxidized to 2-oxoglutarate by the consecutive action of a number of previously uncharacterized enzymes, including a D-arabinose dehydrogenase, a D-arabinonate dehydratase, a novel 2-keto-3-deoxy-D-arabinonate dehydratase, and a 2,5-dioxopentanoate dehydrogenase. Promoter analysis of these genes revealed a palindromic sequence upstream of the TATA box, which is likely to be involved in their concerted transcriptional control. Integration of the obtained biochemical data with genomic context analysis strongly suggests the occurrence of pentose oxidation pathways in both Archaea and Bacteria, and predicts the involvement of additional enzyme components. Moreover, it revealed striking genetic similarities between the catabolic pathways for pentoses, hexaric acids, and hydroxyproline degradation, which support the theory of metabolic pathway genesis by enzyme recruitment.
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- van, den Worm SHE, et al.
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Crystal structures of MS2 coat protein mutants in complex with wild-type RNA operator fragments
- 1998
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Ingår i: NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH. - : OXFORD UNIV PRESS. - 0305-1048. ; 26:5, s. 1345-1351
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In MS2 assembly of phage particles results from an interaction between a coat protein dimer and a stem-loop of the RNA genome (the operator hairpin), Amino acid residues Thr45, which is universally conserved among the small RNA phages, and Thr59 are part
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