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5-Aminolevulinic acid availability and control of spectral complex formation in hemA and hemT mutants of Rhodobacter sphaeroides.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Apr 1993
Neidle E L, Kaplan S
Abstract excerpt
In the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, two genes, hemA and hemT, each encode a distinct 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) synthase isozyme (E. L. Neidle and S. Kaplan, J. Bacteriol. 175:2292-2303, 1993). This enzyme catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step in a branched pathway for tetrapyrrole formation, leading to the biosynthesis of hemes, bacteriochlorophylls, and corrinoids. In an attempt to...
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