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Interactions of chaperonin with a weakly active anthranilate synthase from the aphid endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola.
Microbial ecology - 1 Nov 2008
Huang Chia-Ying, Lee Chi-Ying, Wu Hsiao-Chen, Kuo Mei-Hwa, Lai Chi-Yung
Abstract excerpt
The endosymbiotic bacterium Buchnera provides its aphid host with essential amino acids. Buchnera is typical of intracellular symbiotic and parasitic microorganisms in having a small effective population size, which is believed to accelerate genetic drift and reduce the stability of gene products. It is hypothesized that Buchnera mitigates protein instability with an increased production of the chaperonins...
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