Evidence for transit peptide acquisition through duplication and subsequent frameshift mutation of a preexisting protein gene in rice

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2405-2412

  Ueda, Minoru ^a,b   Fujimoto, Masaru ^b   Arimura, Shin Ichi ^b   Tsutsumi, Nobuhiro ^b   Kadowaki, Koh Ichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frameshift mutation; Mitochondria; Plastid; Ribosomal protein; Rice; Transit peptide

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L13 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLAST; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 5; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN MOTIF; RICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DUPLICATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT CHIMERIC PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 33750933992     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl112     Document Type: Article

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