Evolutionary origin of cryptomonad microalgae: Two novel chloroplast/cytosol-specific GAPDH genes as potential markers of ancestral endosymbiont and host cell components

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages

  Liaud, Marie Françoise ^a   Brandt, Ulrike ^a   Scherzinger, Margitta ^b,c   Cerff, Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell evolution; Endosymbiotic gene transfer; Enzyme engineering; Glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate dehydrogenase; Guillardia theta; Pyrenomonas salina; Signal peptide

Indexed keywords

GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GLYCOLYSIS; HOST CELL; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHROMOPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; GUILLARDIA THETA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PYRENOMONAS SALINA; RHODOPHYTA; SALINA;

EID: 0031018799     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/pl00000050     Document Type: Article

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