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Glycogen metabolism loss: a common marker of parasitic behaviour in bacteria?

Trends Genet

September 2002

Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, UMR6098, CNRS, Universités de Marseille I and II, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille cedex 20, France.

We searched 55 completely sequenced bacterial genomes for glycogen synthesis and degradation enzymes. A significant proportion of these bacteria appears to lack glycogen metabolism capability. Interestingly, these bacteria are parasitic, symbiotic or fastidious (i.

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