Evolutionary origins of the eukaryotic shikimate pathway: Gene fusions, horizontal gene transfer, and endosymbiotic replacements

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1517-1531

  Richards, Thomas A ^a,f   Dacks, Joel B ^b   Campbell, Samantha A ^c,g   Blanchard, Jeffrey L ^d   Foster, Peter G ^a   McLeod, Rima ^e   Roberts, Craig W ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; AROM ENZYME; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; HYDROLYASE; LYASE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SHIKIMIC ACID; TRANSFERASE;

ALGA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FUNGUS; GENE FUSION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PROKARYOTIC CELL; SYMBIOSIS;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ALGAE; AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENE FUSION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HYDRO-LYASES; LYASES; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SHIKIMIC ACID; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSFERASES;

ALGAE; APICOMPLEXA; ASCOMYCOTA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; CILIOPHORA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; OOMYCETES; PLANTAE; PROKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VIRIDIPLANTAE; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 33748857142     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00106-06     Document Type: Article

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