Origin of mitochondria by intracellular enslavement of a photosynthetic purple bacterium

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1596, 2006, Pages 1943-1952

  Cavalier Smith, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gene transfer; Membrane carriers; Mitochondria; Protein targeting; proteobacteria

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARRIER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEIN; PORIN; PROTEIN SAM50; PROTEIN TIM22; PROTEIN TOM40; PROTEIN TOM70; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRION; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEOBACTERIA; REVIEW; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEOBACTERIA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 33750621178     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3531     Document Type: Review

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