Members of this family are class II examples of the enzyme fructose-bisphosphate aldolase, an enzyme both of glycolysis and (in the opposite direction) of the Calvin cycle of CO2 fixation. A deep split separates the tightly conserved yeast/Escherichia coli/Mycobacterium subtype (all species lacking the Calvin cycle) represented by IPR006411 from a broader group of aldolases that includes both tagatose- and fructose-bisphosphate aldolases. This family represents a distinct, elongated, very well conserved subtype within the latter group. Most species with this aldolase subtype have the Calvin cycle.
Schaferjohann J, Yoo JG, Bowien B.
Analysis of the genes forming the distal parts of the two cbb CO2 fixation operons from Alcaligenes eutrophus.
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