title: Identification of Mycoplasma pirum genes involved in the salvage pathways for nucleosides.
abstract: Genes encoding enzymes involved in the salvage pathway for nucleosides have been cloned and sequenced from the mollicute Mycoplasma pirum. One of them, encoding deoxyriboaldolase, was functionally identified by complementation of an Escherichia coli mutant. These genes are clustered, suggesting an operon organization, and they are immediately followed by the putative gene for the triose phosphate isomerase, an enzyme used during glycolysis.
authors.affiliation: Departement du SIDA et des rétrovirus, Oncologie Virale, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Tham
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ferris
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kovacic
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Montagnier
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blanchard
mesh_terms: D000446:Aldehyde-Lyases / Q000235:genetics; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D003564:Cytidine Deaminase / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D007535:Isomerases / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009174:Mycoplasma / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D009705:Nucleosides / Q000378:metabolism*; D017875:Phosphotransferases (Phosphomutases); D011683:Purine-Nucleoside Phosphorylase / Q000235:genetics; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013939:Thymidine Phosphorylase / Q000235:genetics; D014305:Triose-Phosphate Isomerase / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D009705:Nucleosides; D011683:Purine-Nucleoside Phosphorylase; D013939:Thymidine Phosphorylase; D003564:Cytidine Deaminase; D000446:Aldehyde-Lyases; C020019:deoxyribose-phosphate aldolase; D007535:Isomerases; D014305:Triose-Phosphate Isomerase; D017875:Phosphotransferases (Phosphomutases); C052799:phosphomannomutase