PDH Enzyme (IMAGE)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

PDH Enzyme

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This is a three-dimensional structure of the PDH enzyme from soybean, a legume. This structure helped show that only one mutation allowed legumes to evolve a new way to make the amino acid tyrosine.

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Craig Schenck

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