Compartment-specific isoforms of TPI and GAPDH are imported into diatom mitochondria as a fusion protein: Evidence in favor of a mitochondrial origin of the eukaryotic glycolytic pathway

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 213-223

  Liaud, Marie Françoise ^a   Lichtlé, Christiane ^b   Apt, Kirk ^c   Martin, William ^a   Cerff, Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c Martek Biosciences Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Algal photosynthesis; Cell evolution; Cryptomonads; Diatoms; Glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate dehydrogenase; Mitochondrial glycolysis; Multienzyme complex; Oomycetes; Phosphoglycerate kinase; Stramenopiles; Triose phosphate isomerase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; DIATOM; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GLYCOLYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; OOMYCETES; PROTISTA; RHODOPHYTA; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 0033983545     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026301     Document Type: Article

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