Protein superfamily evolution and the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 513-525

  Ranea, Juan A G ^a   Sillero, Antonio ^b   Thornton, Janet M ^c   Orengo, Christine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancestral protein families; Ancestral protein functions; Evolutionary temperature; Genome comparison; Last Universal Common Ancestor; Protein evolution; Protein structural domains

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME SIZE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROGENOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33750273036     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0289-7     Document Type: Article

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