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The acquisition of a completely new functional capability will often require an entire suite of novel genes, and such recruitment is certainly easier to envision if all of the genes arrive en bloc (that is, as an operon).
Oligonucleotide primers for PCR were synthesized by Operon Technologies (Alameda, CA, USA).
Agrobacterium rhizogenes is capable of producing TFX by addition of the stable plasmid, pT2TFXK, which contains the tfx operon but not tfuA [ 11 12 20 ] . This suggests that TFX production by crown gall biological control strains of Agrobacterium, such as A. rhizogenes K84 and A. vitis F2/5, may be enhanced by TFX production.
through increased specificity of phosphate uptake, [ 2 ] ), arsenite oxidation through the activity of arsenite oxidase [ 3 4 ] , or peroxidation reactions with membrane lipids [ 5 6 ] . Other microorganisms utilize arsenic in metabolism, either as a terminal electron acceptor in dissimilatory arsenate respiration [ 7 8 9 10 ] or as an electron donor in chemoautotrophic arsenite oxidation [ 11 12 ] . However, the most well-characterized microbial arsenic detoxification pathway involves the ars operon [ 2 13 ] .
Direct comparison of chlamydial trpAa and trpAb genes with those of the Xylella operon is not possible because all chlamydial genomes thus far mapped lack trpAa and trpAb [ 23].