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Title: Molecular evolution of the histidine biosynthetic pathway
Authors: Fani, R
Liò, P
Lazcano Araujo Reyes, Antonio Eusebio
Issue Date: 1995
Citation: Fani, R., Liò, P., and Lazcano A. 1995. Molecular evolution of the histidine biosynthetic pathway. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 41: 760-774
Abstract: The available sequences of genes encoding the enzymes associated with histidine biosynthesis suggest that this is an ancient metabolic pathway that was assembled prior to the diversification of the Bacteria, Archaea, and Eucarya. Paralogous duplications, gene elongation, and fusion events involving different his genes have played a major role in shaping this biosynthetic route. Evidence that the hisA and the hisF genes and their homologues are the result of two successive duplication events that apparently took place before the separation of the three cellular lineages is extended. These two successive gene duplication events as well as the homology between the hisH genes and the sequences encoding the TrpGtype amidotransferases support the idea that during the early stages of metabolic evolution at least parts of the histidine biosynthetic pathway were mediated by enzymes of broader substrate specificities. Maximum likelihood trees calculated for the available sequences of genes encoding these enzymes have been obtained. Their topologies support the possibility of an evolutionary proximity of archaebacteria with low GC Grampositive bacteria. This observation is consistent with those detected by other workers using the sequences of heatshock proteins (HSP70), glutamine synthetases, glutamate dehydrogenases, and carbamoylphosphate synthetases.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11154/140249
ISSN: 14321432
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