Evolution of plant-like crystalline storage polysaccharide in the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii argues for a red alga ancestry

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 257-267

  Coppin, Alexandra ^a   Varré, Jean Stéphane ^b   Lienard, Luc ^a   Dauvillée, David ^a   Guérardel, Yann ^a   Soyer Gobillard, Marie Odile ^c   Buléon, Alain ^d   Ball, Steven ^a   Tomavo, Stanislas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Amylopectin; Evolutionary origin; Floridean starch; Glucan water dikinase; Isoamylase; Plant like metabolism; Rhodophyte; T. gondii

Indexed keywords

AMYLOPECTIN; GLUCAN; GLYCOGEN; ISOAMYLASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; POLYMER; POLYSACCHARIDE; STARCH; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; WATER; GLYCOGEN DEBRANCHING ENZYME;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTHECODINIUM COHNII; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GREEN ALGA; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOON; RED ALGA; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; CRYPTHECODINIUM COHNII; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; DINOPHYCEAE; FUNGI; PROTOZOA; RHODOPHYTA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

ALGAE, RED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CRYSTALLIZATION; DINOFLAGELLIDA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GLYCOGEN DEBRANCHING ENZYME SYSTEM; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHYLOGENY; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 15944426503     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0185-6     Document Type: Article

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