The evolutionary history of carbamoyltransferases: A complex set of paralogous genes was already present in the last universal common ancestor

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 461-473

  Labedan, Bernard ^a   Boyen, Anne ^b,c   Baetens, Margot ^b,c   Charlier, Daniel ^c,d   Chen, Pingguo ^b,c   Cunin, Raymond ^b,c   Durbeco, Virginie ^e   Glansdorff, Nicolas ^b,c,d   Herve, Guy ^f   Legrain, Christianne ^d   Liang, Ziyuan ^b,c   Purcarea, Christina ^b,f   Roovers, Martine ^b,c   Sanchez, Rony ^b,c   Toong, Thia Lin ^b,c   Van De Casteele, Marc ^c   Van Vliet, Françoise ^d   Xu, Ying ^b,c   Zhang, Yuan Fu ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d Institut de Recherches du CERIA   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^f SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^g Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology   (China)

Author keywords

ATCase; Carbamoyltransferases; Gene duplication; Last universal common ancestor; Molecular phylogeny; OTCase; Paralogous proteins; Protein evolution

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FUSION GENE; GENE LOSS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FAMILY;

EID: 0032824425     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006569     Document Type: Article

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