Biosynthetic enzymes expressed sequence tags

Efforts to elucidate the genetic basis of biosynthetic pathways tend to result in the identification of structural genes, i.e. genes encoding enzymes that catalyze the conversion of intermediates in a specific pathway. This is in part due to the relatively high expression of the structural genes, which results in abundant representation in expressed sequence tag (EST) libraries, or high probability of identification when cDNA subtraction methods or other methods that rely on differential expression are used. 

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