Multiple recruitment of class-I aldolase to chloroplasts and eubacterial origin of eukaryotic class-II aldolases revealed by cDNAs from Euglena gracilis

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 430-438

  Plaumann, Marlies ^a   Pelzer Reith, Birgit ^a   Martin, William F ^b   Schnarrenberger, Claus ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endosymbiosis; Endosymbiotic gene transfer; Euglena gracilis; Molecular evolution

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUBACTERIUM; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FRUCTOSE-BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; TRYPANOSOMA;

ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUKARYOTA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTISTA;

EID: 0030956750     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050226     Document Type: Article

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