Accumulation of species-specific amino acid replacements that cause loss of particular protein functions in buchnera, an endocellular bacterial symbiont

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 377-386

  Shigenobu, Shuji ^a   Watanabe, Hidemi ^b   Sakaki, Yoshiyuki ^b   Ishikawa, Hajime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buchnera; Mutation; Neutral mutation; Positive selection; PROSITE; Protein evolution; Reductive evolution; Symbiont

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BUCHNERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; BUCHNERA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0034825117     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002390010227     Document Type: Article

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