Paths of lateral gene transfer of lysyl-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases with a unique evolutionary transition stage of prokaryotes coding for class I and II varieties by the same organisms

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Shaul, Shaul ^a   Nussinov, Ruth ^a,b   Pupko, Tal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; LYSYL AMINOACYL TRANSFER RIBONUCLEIC ACID SYNTHETASE 1; LYSYL AMINOACYL TRANSFER RIBONUCLEIC ACID SYNTHETASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ISOENZYME; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIS; CODING AND CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PATH ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE; ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEON; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; ENZYMOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; LANGAT VIRUS; PROKARYOTA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CRENARCHAEOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; ISOENZYMES; LYSINE-TRNA LIGASE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745019649     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-22     Document Type: Article

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