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A previously undescribed pathway for pyrimidine catabolism.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Mar 2006
Loh Kevin D, Gyaneshwar Prasad, Markenscoff Papadimitriou Eirene, Fong Rebecca, Kim Kwang-Seo, Parales Rebecca, Zhou Zhongrui, Inwood William, Kustu Sydney
Abstract excerpt
The b1012 operon of Escherichia coli K-12, which is composed of seven unidentified ORFs, is one of the most highly expressed operons under control of nitrogen regulatory protein C. Examination of strains with lesions in this operon on Biolog Phenotype MicroArray (PM3) plates and subsequent growth tests indicated that they failed to use uridine or uracil as the sole nitrogen source and that the parental strain...
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