E. Saavedralira et R. Perezmontfort, CLONING AND SEQUENCE DETERMINATION OF THE GENE CODING FOR THE PYRUVATE PHOSPHATE DIKINASE OF ENTAMOEBA-HISTOLYTICA, Gene, 142(2), 1994, pp. 249-251
We isolated three overlapping clones from a DNA genomic library of Ent
amoeba histolytica strain HM1:IMSS, whose translated nucleotide (nt) s
equence shows similarities of 51, 48 and 47% with the amino acid (aa)
sequences reported for the pyruvate phosphate dikinases from Bacteroid
es symbiosus, maize and Flaveria trinervia, respectively. The reading
frame determined codes for a protein of 886 aa.