Evolution of Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases-analysis of unique domain architectures and phylogenetic trees reveals a complex history of horizontal gene transfer events

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 689-710

  Wolf, Yuri I ^a,c   Aravind, L ^a,b   Grishin, Nick V ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HYDROLASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SYNTHETASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPIROCHAETA; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 0032830481     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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