Impact of the excision of an ancient repeat insertion on Rickettsia conorii guanylate kinase activity

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2112-2122

  Abergel, Chantal ^a   Blanc, Guillaume ^a   Monchois, Vincent ^a,c   Renesto, Patricia ^b   Sigoillot, Cécile ^a   Ogata, Hiroyuki ^a   Raoult, Didier ^b   Claverie, Jean Michel ^a  

^a CNRS Aix Marseille University   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Protein'eXpert SA   (France)

Author keywords

Enzyme fitness; Guanylate kinase; Palindromic coding repeat; Recombinant protein expression; Rickettsia conorii

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GENE PRODUCT; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; GUANYLATE KINASE; MESSENGER RNA; PALINDROMIC DNA; PROTEIN GMK; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA SPECIFIC PALINDROMIC ELEMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GUANYLATE KINASE; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RICKETTSIA CONORII; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA;

EID: 33749576307     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl082     Document Type: Article

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