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Urea-hydrolysis-dependent citrulline synthesis by Ureaplasma urealyticum
D G Smith1, W C Russell, D Thirkell
1School of Biological and Medical Sciences, St. Andrews University, UK.
FEMS Microbiology Letters
|November 1, 1992
Abstract:
Some of the ammonia produced by hydrolysis of urea by Ureaplasma urealyticum is channelled into an anabolic pathway with resultant 'de novo' synthesis of citrulline. The organism appears to possess ornithine carbamoyltransferase and carbamoyl phosphate synthetase or some modified form of these enzymes.