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Diversity of aspartate carbamoyltransferase genes of Trypanosoma cruzi.
International journal for parasitology - 30 Jul 2003
Nara Takeshi, Hirayama-Noguchi Yoshie, Gao Guanghan, Murai Emi, Annoura Takeshi, Aoki Takashi
Abstract excerpt
The pyrimidine-biosynthetic (pyr) gene cluster, a tandem array of pyr1-pyr3-pyr6/5-pyr2(ACT)-pyr4 from the 5' terminus, encodes all the six enzymes of de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis and occurs as a polycistronic transcription unit in Trypanosoma cruzi. The gene encoding aspartate carbamoyltransferase (ACT), the second enzyme of the pathway, was characterised using a laboratory-reared Tulahuen strain and...
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