Comparative genomics of bacterial and plant folate synthesis and salvage: predictions and validations
Open Access
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Genomics
- Vol. 8 (1) , 245
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-8-245
Abstract
Folate synthesis and salvage pathways are relatively well known from classical biochemistry and genetics but they have not been subjected to comparative genomic analysis. The availability of genome sequences from hundreds of diverse bacteria, and from Arabidopsis thaliana, enabled such an analysis using the SEED database and its tools. This study reports the results of the analysis and integrates them with new and existing experimental data.Keywords
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