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Wednesday, 16 May 2012

How widespread are NHases in eukaryotes?

There is a neat diagram summarizing the findings of the paper by Marron, Akram and Walker called "Nitrile Hydratase Genes Are Present in Multiple Eukaryotic Supergroups" in PLoS One to be found here in full. There is quite a lot of legend that goes with it that I recommend you look at the paper for, but crucially asterisk * means evidence of one eukaryotic NHase subunit (and hence ** means evidence of both), and hash # means a dodgy read more suggestive of prokaryotic contamination.
So that's a black mark for any NHase in plants and animals then...

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