Organization of butyrate synthetic genes in human colonic bacteria: phylogenetic conservation and horizontal gene transfer

Butyrate producers constitute an important bacterial group in the human large intestine. Butyryl-CoA is formed from two molecules of acetyl-CoA in a process resembling β-oxidation in reverse. Three different arrangements of the six genes coding for this pathway have been found in low mol% G+C-conten...

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