The iron-sulfur cluster assembly genes iscS and iscU of Entamoeba histolytica were acquired by horizontal gene transfer

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Van Der Giezen, Mark ^a   Cox, Siân ^a   Tovar, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; PROTEOBACTERIA;

IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; ISCS PROTEIN, ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ISCU PROTEIN, ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

5' FLANKING REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 2942536494     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-4-7     Document Type: Article

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