Bacterial gene clusters

Watanabe, S., Saimura, M., and Makino, K. (2008) Eukaryotic and bacterial gene clusters related to an alternative pathway of nonphosphory-lated L-rhamnose metabolism. J. Biol. Chem., 283, 20372-20382. 

Bacterial gene clusters are organized into a suprafunctional unit, the operon. Throughout this review the term operon is used in accord with the definition proposed by Ames and Martin [8] ... 

Unicelluar algal and bacterial genes were the first to be isolated and characterized and led to the isolation of most of the higher plant genes involved in carotenoid biosynthesis. Carotenogenic gene clusters from bacteria and algae" - - - contributed immensely to the elucidation of the carotenoid pathway. 

Kostichka K, SM Thomas, KJ Gibson, V Nagarajan, Q Cheng (2001) Cloning and characterization of a gene cluster for cyclododecanone oxidation in Rhodococcus ruber SCI. J Bacterial 183 6478-6486. 

Furukawa K, T Miyazaki (1986) Cloning of a gene cluster encoding biphenyl and chlorobiphenyl degradation in Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes. J Bacterial 166 392-398. 

Baitsch D, C Sandu, R Brandsch, GL Igloi (2001) Gene cluster on pAOl of Arthrobacter nicotinovorans involved in degradation of the plant alkaloid nicotine cloning, purification, and characterization of 2,6-dihydroxypyridine 3-hydrolase. J Bacterial 183 5262-5267. 

Nojiri H, H Sekiguchi, K Maeda, M Urata, S-I Nakai, T Yoshida, H Habe, T Omori (2001) Genetic characterization and evolutionary implications of a car gene cluster in the carbazole degrader Pseudomonas sp. strain CAIO. J Bacterial 183 3663-3679. 

Armengaud J, KN Timmis, R-M Wittich (1999) A functional 4-hydroxysalicylate/hydroxyquinol degradative pathway gene cluster is linked to the initial dibenzo-p-dioxin pathway genes in Sphingomonas sp. strain RWl. J Bacterial 181 3452-3461. 

Metcalf WW, BL Wanner (1991) Involvement of the Escherichia coli phn (psiD) gene cluster in assimilation of phosphorus in the form of phosphonates, phosphite, Pj esters, and Pj. J Bacterial 173 587-600. 

Braun, C., and Zumft, W. G. (1992). The structural genes of the nitric oxide reductase complex from Pseudomonas stutzeri are part of a 30-kilobase gene cluster for denitrification, j. Bacterial. 174, 2394-2397. 

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