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Phylogenetic analysis of erythritol catabolic loci within the Rhizobiales and proteobacteria.
BMC microbiology - 23 Feb 2013
Geddes Barney A, Hausner Georg, Oresnik Ivan J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The ability to use erythritol as a sole carbon source is not universal among the Rhizobiaceae. Based on the relatedness to the catabolic genes in Brucella it has been suggested that the eryABCD operon may have been horizontally transferred into Rhizobium. During work characterizing a locus necessary for the transport and catabolism of erythritol, adonitol and L-arabitol in Sinorhizobium meliloti, we...
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