Pyrimidine Salvage Enzymes in Microorganisms: Labyrinths of Enzymatic Diversity
Description:
Pyrimidine salvage pathways are essential to all cells. They provide a balance of RNA synthesis with the biosynthetic pathway in pyrimidine prototrophs and supply all the pyrimidine requirements in auxotrophs. While the pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway is found in almost all organisms and is nearly identical throughout nature, the salvage pathway often differs from species to species, with aspects of salvage seen in every organism. Thus significant taxonomic value may be ascribed to the salvage …
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Date:
December 1995
Creator:
Beck, Debrah A. (Debrah Ann)
Partner:
UNT Libraries