Structural diversification and neo-functionalization during floral MADS-box gene evolution by C-terminal frameshift mutations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 4401-4409

  Vandenbussche, Michiel ^a   Theissen, Günter ^b   Van de Peer, Yves ^a   Gerats, Tom ^a,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DEFICIENS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTYLEDON; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FLOWER; GENE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DEFICIENS PROTEIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENES, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0043163785     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg642     Document Type: Article

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