Lateral transfers of serine hydroxymethyltransferase (glyA) and UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvyl transferase (murA) genes from free-living actinobacteria to the parasitic chlamydiae

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 283-296

  Griffiths, Emma ^a   Gupta, Radhey S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actinobacteria; Chlamydiae; Conserved indels; Phylogenetic trees; Rare genomic changes; Streptomyces; Treponema

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE ENOLPYRUVYL TRANSFERASE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCES; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BREVIBACTERIUM; CELL WALL; CHLAMYDIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STREPTOMYCES; TREPONEMA; TROPHERYMA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCES; ANIMALIA; ARTHROBACTER; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BREVIBACTERIUM; CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDIALES; LEIFSONIA; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS; STREPTOMYCES; TREPONEMA; TROPHERYMA; WADDLIA CHONDROPHILA;

EID: 33746433456     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0286-x     Document Type: Article

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