Single eubacterial origin of eukaryotic sulfide:quinone oxidoreductase, a mitochondrial enzyme conserved from the early evolution of eukaryotes during anoxic and sulfidic times

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1564-1574

  Theissen, Ursula ^a   Hoffmeister, Meike ^a   Grieshaber, Manfred ^a   Martin, William ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaerobiosis; Electron transport chain; Endosymbiosis; Hydrogenosomes; Sulfide quinone reductase

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; OXYGEN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); SULFIDE; SULFIDE:QUINONE OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; REDUCTION; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; QUINONE REDUCTASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SULFIDES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037787922     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg174     Document Type: Article

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