Ras-like small GTPases form a large family of proteins in the marine sponge Suberites domuncula

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 332-341

  Cetkovic, Helena ^a   Mikoc, Andreja ^a   Müller, Werner E G ^b   Gamulin, Vera ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axis formation; Metazoan evolution; Phagocytosis; Porifera; Rab proteins

Indexed keywords

ARF PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; RAB LIKE PROTEIN; RAN PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; SPONGE (PORIFERA); SUBERITES; SUBERITES DOMUNCULA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBERITES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; PORIFERA; SUBERITES DOMUNCULA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33847641386     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-006-0081-3     Document Type: Article

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