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Inversion of allosteric effect of arginine on N-acetylglutamate synthase, a molecular marker for evolution of tetrapods

Nantaporn Haskins1 email, Maria Panglao1,2 email, Qiuhao Qu1,3 email, Himani Majumdar1 email, Juan Cabrera-Luque1 email, Hiroki Morizono1 email, Mendel Tuchman1 email and Ljubica Caldovic1 email

Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Ave NW, Washington DC, 20010, USA

School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, 2300 I St. NW, Washington DC, 20037, USA

Division of Neurosciences, Beckman Research Institute, 1450 E Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA

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BMC Biochemistry 2008, 9:24doi:10.1186/1471-2091-9-24

Published: 18 September 2008

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Additional file 1:

Urea cycle genes in animals. Genomes of animals that belong to different phyla were surveyed for the presence of urea cycle genes. Accession numbers and databases that were searched are listed for each urea cycle gene.

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Primers used for site-directed mutagenesis and cloning of NAGS. Table 1 lists primers that were used for site-directed mutagenesis of mouse NAGS and X. campestris NAGS-K. Table 2 lists primers that were used for cloning of the arabidopsis, pufferfish, zebrafish, X. laevis, X. tropicalis and M. maris NAGS, and sizes of amplification products for each primer pair.

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