Article
Conserved enzymes mediate the early reactions of carotenoid biosynthesis in nonphotosynthetic and photosynthetic prokaryotes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Dec 1990
Armstrong G A, Alberti M, Hearst J E
Abstract excerpt
Carotenoids comprise one of the most widespread classes of pigments found in nature. The first reactions of C40 carotenoid biosynthesis proceed through common intermediates in all organisms, suggesting the evolutionary conservation of early enzymes from this pathway. We report here the nucleotide sequence of three genes from the carotenoid biosynthesis gene cluster of Erwinia herbicola, a nonphotosynthetic...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Carotenoids
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial
- Erwinia
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Photosynthesis
- Plasmids