In silico sequence analysis of arylamine N-acetyltransferases: Evidence for an absence of lateral gene transfer from bacteria to vertebrates and first description of paralogs in bacteria

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 293, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 783-792

  Rodrigues Lima, Fernando ^a   Dupret, Jean Marie ^b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Horizontal transfer; Motifs; NAT; Paralogs

Indexed keywords

ARYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DRUG METABOLIZING ENZYME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BRASSICA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; COMPUTER MODEL; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; NAT GENE; NEMATODE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE; WEED; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM; YEAST;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBIACEAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; VERTEBRATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; PROKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036297103     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)00299-1     Document Type: Article

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