Reconsidering the evolution of eukaryotic selenoproteins: A novel nonmammalian family with scattered phylogenetic distribution

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-77

  Castellano, Sergi ^a   Novoselov, Sergey V ^b   Kryukov, Gregory V ^b   Lescure, Alain ^c   Blanco, Enrique ^a   Krol, Alain ^c   Gladyshev, Vadim N ^b   Guigó, Roderic ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^d CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYSTINE; GUANINE; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTINE; SELENOPROTEIN; THYMINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATOM; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GREEN ALGA; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PUFFER FISH; SEA URCHIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; WORM; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TAKIFUGU; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; DANIO RERIO; ECHINOIDEA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; TAKIFUGU; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 1242321034     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400036     Document Type: Article

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