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. 2006 Jun;72(6):3993–4000. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00684-06

TABLE 3.

Activities of cysteine biosynthetic enzymes in Legionella spp.

Organism Sp acta (mean ± SD)
Serine transacetylase Cysteine synthase
L. pneumophila Philadelphia-1 <0.1 <0.11
L. pneumophila Knoxville-1 <0.1 <0.1
L. jordanis ABB9 <0.1 <0.1
L. oakridgeneis OR10 79 ± 12 21 ± 6
E. coli K-12 54 ± 7 48 ± 8
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Specific activity is expressed as nanomoles per minute per milligram of protein. Each enzyme activity was determined in triplicate.