Ribosomal cold-adaptation: Characterization of the genes encoding the acidic ribosomal P0 and P2 proteins from the Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii

Gene

Volumn 360, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 103-110

  Pucciarelli, Sandra ^a   Marziale, Francesca ^a   Di Giuseppe, Graziano ^b   Barchetta, Sabrina ^a   Miceli, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Phylogenetic marker; Protein flexibility; Protist; Psychrophilic organism

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CILIATE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONFORMATION; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES FOCARDII; GENE SEQUENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; SPECIES COMPARISON; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; COLD; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EUPLOTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES FOCARDII; PROTISTA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 26844555780     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.06.007     Document Type: Article

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