The origin of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase genes of kinetoplastids, with special reference to their biological significance and adaptation to anaerobic, parasitic conditions

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 113-127

  Annoura, Takeshi ^a   Nara, Takeshi ^a   Makiuchi, Takashi ^a,b   Hashimoto, Tetsuo ^c   Aoki, Takashi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaerobiosis; Bodonid; Dihydroorotate dehydrogenase; Euglenozoa; Gene fusion; Horizontal gene transfer; Kinetoplastid; Phylogenetic tree; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; DIHYDROOROTATE DEHYDROGENASE; FUMARATE REDUCTASE; PYRIMIDINE;

ADAPTATION; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINEAGE; CLONING; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FLAGELLATE; GENE FUSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARASITISM; PHYLOGENY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; KINETOPLASTIDA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 14644431768     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0078-8     Document Type: Article

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