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The glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.49) gene (zwf) of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7942 was cloned on a 2.8 kb Hind III fragment. Sequence analysis revealed an ORF of 1572 nucleotides encoding a polypeptide of 524 amino acids which exhibited 41% identity with the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase of Escherichia coli.
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Scanlan, D.J., Newman, J., Sebaihia, M. et al. Cloning and sequence analysis of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase gene from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7942. Plant Mol Biol 19, 877–880 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00027085
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