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Cysteine desulphurase plays an important role in environmental adaptation of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Jul 2014
Hidese Ryota, Inoue Takahiro, Imanaka Tadayuki, Fujiwara Shinsuke
Abstract excerpt
The sulphur atoms of sulphur-containing cofactors that are essential for numerous cellular functions in living organisms originate from L-cysteine via cysteine desulphurase (CSD) activity. However, many (hyper)thermophilic archaea, which thrive in solfataric fields and are positioned near the root of the evolutionary tree of life, lack CSD orthologues. The existence of CSD orthologues in a subset of...
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