The origin of photoactivated adenylyl cyclase (PAC), the Euglena blue-light receptor: Phylogenetic analysis of orthologues of PAC subunits from several euglenoids and trypanosome-type adenylyl cyclases from Euglena gracilis

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 580-586

  Koumura, Yoshiko ^a,b   Suzuki, Takeshi ^a,b   Yoshikawa, Shinya ^a,b   Watanabe, Masakatsu ^b,c   Iseki, Mineo ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; AMINO ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; QUERCETIN;

ABSORPTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; BLUE LIGHT; COLACIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUTREPTIA; EUTREPTIELLA; FLAGELLATE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KHAWKINEA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; ORTHOLOGY; OSMOSIS; PETALOMONAS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTROPISM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLACIUM; COLACIUM SIDEROPUS; EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENA STELLATA; EUGLENIDA; EUTREPTIA; EUTREPTIA VIRIDIS; EUTREPTIELLA; EUTREPTIELLA GYMNASTICA; KHAWKINEA; KHAWKINEA QUARTANA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PETALOMONAS; PETALOMONAS CANTUSCYGNI;

EID: 3242743034     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b316075k     Document Type: Article

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