Tracing pathways of transport protein evolution

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1145-1156

  Saier Jr , Milton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; ENZYME; ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; EVOLUTION; GENE FUSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SHORT SURVEY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037783318     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03499.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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