Table 3

Possible sources of serine deaminase in organisms containing TrpEb_2

Serine deaminases

Threonine deaminases



Organisms

Fe-S*

PLP*

TdcA*

IlvA*


Pyrococcus horikoshii

-

-

-

-

Pyrococcus furiosus

-

-

-

-

Pyrococcus abyssi

-

-

-

-

Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum

-

-

-

-

Thermoplasma acidophilum

-

-

+

-

Thermoplasma volcanium

-

-

+

-

Ferroplasma acidarmanus

-

-

+

-

Methanosarcina barkeri

-

-

-

-

Archaeoglobus fulgidus

-

-

-

-

Pyrobaculum aerophilum

-

-

+

-

Aeropyrum pernix

-

-

+

-

Sulfolobus solfataricus

-

-

+

-

Aquifex aeolicus

-

-

-

-

Thermotoga maritima

-

-

+

-

Mycobacterium smegmatis

+

-

+

-

Chlorobium tepidum

-

-

-

-

Geobacter sulfurreducens

-

-

+

-

Rhodopseudomonas palustris

-

-

+

-


*Sequences that were used to query the databases at NCBI [38], at JGI [39] for Fac and Mba, and at ERGO [40] for Paer and Rpa were gi 2501150 (iron-sulfur (Fe-S) serine deaminases), gi 134387 (PLP-dependent serine deaminases), gi 135723 (catabolic threonine deaminase), and gi 135720 (biosynthetic threonine deaminase).

Xie et al. Genome Biology 2001 3:research0004.1   doi:10.1186/gb-2001-3-1-research0004

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