A cytochrome b origin of photosynthetic reaction centers: An evolutionary link between respiration and photosynthesis

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 322, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1025-1037

  Xiong, Jin ^a   Bauer, Carl E ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral sequence reconstruction; Bayesian phylogeny; Distant homology; Structural comparison; Threading

Indexed keywords

APOPROTEIN; CYTOCHROME B; HEME DERIVATIVE; HOLOPROTEIN; PHEOPHYTIN; POLYPEPTIDE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE SEQUENCE; HYPOTHESIS; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0036414764     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00822-7     Document Type: Article

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