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Figure 5

From: The hidden universal distribution of amino acid biosynthetic networks: a genomic perspective on their origins and evolution

Figure 5

Taxonomic distribution of amino acid biosynthesis. Conservation of amino acid biosynthesis from the E. coli-centric and multi-organismal seed perspectives. The general trend in the whole of metabolism (MetaCyc), using a manually depurated set of enzyme domains, is also shown. The 16 amino acid biosynthesis universal branches show a maximum of around 45% of reactions (y-axis) in 70% of sampled genomes (x-axis) when all MetaCyc enzymes have a maximum of 24% of reactions in only 10% of genomes.

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Genome Biology

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