Occurrence of multiple, independent gene fusion events for the fifth and sixth enzymes of pyrimidine biosynthesis in different eukaryotic groups

Gene

Volumn 394, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 78-86

  Makiuchi, Takashi ^a   Nara, Takeshi ^a   Annoura, Takeshi ^a   Hashimoto, Tetsuo ^b   Aoki, Takashi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

De novo pyrimidine biosynthesis; Evolutionary marker; Gene fusion; Lateral gene transfer

Indexed keywords

OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, ALGAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FUSION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; KINETOPLASTIDA; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PYRIMIDINES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BODONIDAE; CYANOBACTERIA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENIDA; EUGLENOZOA; EUKARYOTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; PARABODO CAUDATUS; STRAMENOPILES; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 34247096544     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.02.009     Document Type: Article

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