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SUBMITTER: Skodova-Sverakova I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7237987 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20200424 4
In this work, we studied the biochemical properties and evolutionary histories of catalase (CAT) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX), two central enzymes of reactive oxygen species detoxification, across the highly diverse clade Eugenozoa. This clade encompasses free-living phototrophic and heterotrophic flagellates, as well as obligate parasites of insects, vertebrates, and plants. We present evidence of several independent acquisitions of CAT by horizontal gene transfers and evolutionary novelties ...[more]