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Amino acids biosynthesis and nitrogen assimilation pathways: a great genomic deletion during eukaryotes evolution

BACKGROUND: Besides being building blocks for proteins, amino acids are also key metabolic intermediates in living cells. Surprisingly a variety of organisms are incapable of synthesizing some of them, thus named Essential Amino Acids (EAAs). How certain ancestral organisms successfully competed for...

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Autores principales: Guedes, RLM, Prosdocimi, F, Fernandes, GR, Moura, LK, Ribeiro, HAL, Ortega, JM
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3287585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22369087
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-12-S4-S2