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Diversity of membrane transport proteins for vitamins in bacteria and archaea.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Mar 2015
Jaehme Michael, Slotboom Dirk Jan
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BACKGROUND: All organisms use cofactors to extend the catalytic capacities of proteins. Many bacteria and archaea can synthesize cofactors from primary metabolites, but there are also prokaryotes that do not have the complete biosynthetic pathways for all essential cofactors. These organisms are dependent on the uptake of cofactors, or at least their precursors that cannot be synthesized, from the environment....
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