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Recent finding that a prokaryote synthesizes lysine through the α-aminoadipate pathway demonstrates that the lysine synthesis through the α-aminoadipate pathway is not typical of fungi. However, the fungal lysine biosynthesis is not completely the same as the prokaryotic one. We point out that α-aminoadipate reductase is a key enzyme to the evolution of fungal lysine synthesis. In addition, fungi have two different saccharopine dehydrogenases, which is also characteristic of fungi.
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Received: 18 February 2000 / Accepted: 19 June 2000
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Nishida, H., Nishiyama, M. What Is Characteristic of Fungal Lysine Synthesis Through the α-Aminoadipate Pathway?. J Mol Evol 51, 299–302 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002390010091
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002390010091