Evolution of cell-cell signaling in animals: Did late horizontal gene transfer from bacteria have a role?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 292-299

  Iyer, Lakshminarayan M ^a   Aravind, L ^a   Coon, Steven L ^b   Klein, David C ^b   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLSEROTONIN METHYLTRANSFERASE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; CYSTEINE SULFINIC ACID; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HISTIDINE DECARBOXYLASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXYGENASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE FERRIHEMOPROTEIN REDUCTASE; SEROTONIN;

ACTINOMYCES; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CELL INTERACTION; CLADISTICS; DECARBOXYLATION; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME METABOLISM; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOSS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINOMYCES; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 2942709486     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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