Assessing functional divergence in EF-1α and its paralogs in eukaryotes and archaebacteria

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 4227-4237

  Inagaki, Yuji ^a   Blouin, Christian ^a   Susko, Edward ^a   Roger, Andrew J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN ERF3; PROTEIN HBS1; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTE; EXPERIMENTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FLAGELLATE; GENETICS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BINDING SITES; DICTYOSTELIUM; DIPLOMONADIDA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0242317676     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg440     Document Type: Article

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