Respiratory chains in the last common ancestor of living organisms

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 453-460

  Castresana, Jose ^a   Moreira, David ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Last universal ancestor Evolution of respiratory chains; Nitrate respiration; Oxygen respiration; Sulfate respiration Sulfur respiration; Terminal oxidase

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; OXYGEN; SULFATE; SULFITE REDUCTASE; SULFUR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; ENERGY METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY CHAIN;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; NITRATES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SULFATES; SULFUR;

EID: 0032828960     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006568     Document Type: Article

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