Two C or not two C: recurrent disruption of Zn-ribbons, gene duplication, lineage-specific gene loss, and horizontal gene transfer in evolution of bacterial ribosomal proteins

Genome Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2001, Pages

  Makarova, Kira S ^a,b   Ponomarev, Vladimir A ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial Lineage; Horizontal Gene Transfer; Prokaryotic Genome; Ribosomal Protein; Ureaplasma Urealyticum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; ZINC;

ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; METALLOPROTEINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; ZINC;

EID: 0035225012     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-9-research0033     Document Type: Article

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