The rhomboids: a nearly ubiquitous family of intramembrane serine proteases that probably evolved by multiple ancient horizontal gene transfers

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Koonin, Eugene V ^a   Makarova, Kira S ^a   Rogozin, Igor B ^a   Davidovic, Laetitia ^b   Letellier, Marie Claude ^b   Pellegrini, Luca ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacterial Lineage; Constraint Tree; Horizontal Gene Transfer; Horizontal Gene Transfer Event; Signal Peptide Peptidase

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INSECT HORMONE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RHO 2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; RHO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; RHO-2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SERINE PROTEINASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; INSECT HORMONES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0037264371     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-3-r19     Document Type: Article

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