TABLE 1 .
Distribution of genes involved in glutamate/glutamine biosynthesis/degradation in Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Chlamydia trachomatis
| Species | Presence of gene encodinga: |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NtrY/X | PutA | P5CR | GlnA | GlnA-C | CarA/B | GS/PH | GOGAT | GDH | |
|
Ehrlichia
chaffeensis Arkansas |
+ (ECH_0299/ ECH_0339) |
+ (ECH_0667) |
+ (ECH_0013) |
+ (ECH_0089) |
+ (ECH_0983) |
+ (ECH_0503/ ECH_0378) |
+ (ECH_0778) |
− | + (ECH_0771) |
|
Chlamydia
trachomatis IU824 |
− | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − |
a
PutA, bifunctional proline dehydrogenase/pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase; P5CR, pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase; GlnA, glutamine synthetase class I; GlnA-C, GlnA with a partial catalytic domain (Gln-Synt_C) (~270 aa); CarA/B, carbamoyl phosphate synthase small/large subunits; GS/PH, bifunctional glutamate synthase subunit beta/2-polyprenylphenol hydroxylase; GOGAT, glutamine-α-oxoglutarate aminotransferase (glutamate synthase); GDH, NAD-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase. +, present; −, absent. GenBank accession numbers: E. chaffeensis Arkansas, NC_007799.1; C. trachomatis IU824, NC_020511.1.