The Multifunctional iso-Propanol Dehydrogenase of Phytomonas sp. could be the Result of a Horizontal Gene Transfer from a Bacterium to the Trypanosomatid lineage
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From the IBR-CONICET, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000-Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina and the Research Unit for Tropical Diseases and Hormone and Metabolic Research Unit, Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology (ICP), Université Catholique de Louvain, ICP-TROP/74.39, Avenue Hippocrate 74, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003