Evolutionary relationship between translation initiation factor eIF-2γ and selenocysteine-specific elongation factor SELB: Change of function in translation factors

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 649-655

  Keeling, Patrick J ^a,c   Fast, Naomi M ^b   McFadden, Geoff I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EF Tu; eIF 2; SELB; Selenocysteine; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; INITIATION FACTOR 2; SELENOCYSTEINE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MICROSPORIDA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASE-LINKED ELONGATION FACTORS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOSEMA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPLOMONADIDA; EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MICROSPORIDIA; PARABASALIDEA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 0032415904     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006422     Document Type: Article

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