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It is difficult to guess whether the ability of C. psittaci to scavenge kynurenine as a source of tryptophan is a recent innovation in this lineage, or whether it represents an ancient chlamydial strategy that has been abandoned by other chlamydiae.
The kynureninase of rat and human liver has an order-of-magnitude preference for 3-hydroxykynurenine [ 37], in contrast to a microbial kynureninase that exhibits a very high preference for kynurenine [ 38].
In human macrophages kynurenine is further metabolized [ 34].
Although this might at first seem an unfavorable outcome for the C. psittaci parasitism, a finite but minimal supply of kynurenine might satisfy the highly limited metabolic demands of the persistent state.
These chlamydial proteins might be broad-specificity transporters of tryptophan, tyrosine, phenylalanine and perhaps kynurenine as well.
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