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Journal of Bacteriology, November 2001, p. 6714-6716, Vol. 183, No. 22
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.22.6714-6716.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Presence of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Species in All Subgroups of the PPi-Dependent Group II Phosphofructokinase Protein Family

Miklós Müller,1,* Jennifer A. Lee,1 Paul Gordon,2 Terry Gaasterland,1 and Christoph W. Sensen3

The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 100211; National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Marine Biosciences, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4H72; and University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N13

Received 14 May 2001/Accepted 24 August 2001

Inorganic pyrophosphate-dependent phosphofructokinase (PPi-PFK) of the amitochondriate eukaryote Mastigamoeba balamuthi was sequenced and showed about 60% identity to PPi-PFKs from two eubacteria, Propionibacterium freudenreichii and Sinorhizobium meliloti. These gene products represent a newly recognized lineage of PFKs. All four lineages of group II PFKs, as defined by phylogenetic analysis, contained both prokaryotic and eukaryotic species, underlining the complex evolutionary history of this enzyme.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave., New York, NY 10021. Phone: (212) 327-8153. Fax: (212) 327-7974. E-mail: mmuller{at}mail.rockefeller.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, November 2001, p. 6714-6716, Vol. 183, No. 22
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.22.6714-6716.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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