Protein modules conserved since LUCA

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 622-634

  Sobolevsky, Yehoshua ^a   Trifonov, Edward N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Closed loops; Common Ancestor; Conserved sequences; Last Universal; Motifs; Protein modules; Structure conservation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLOBULAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROGENOTE; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TOPOISOMERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33751550510     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0190-4     Document Type: Article

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