Isolation of a novel ras gene from Trichomonas vaginalis: A possible evolutionary ancestor of the Ras and Rap genes of higher eukaryotes

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 239-245

  Xu, Ming Yan ^a   Liu, Ju Li ^a   Zhang, Ren Li ^b   Fu, Yu Cai ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b SHENZHEN CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

GTP binding protein; Molecular evolution; Ras protein; Trichomonas vaginalis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROORGANISMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RAS PROTEIN; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

PROTEINS;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; RAP PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RAS; GENES, VPR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EUKARYOTA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 34249734783     PISSN: 08298211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/O07-008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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