Protein disulfide oxidoreductases and the evolution of thermophily: Was the last common ancestor a heat-loving microbe?

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 296-303

  Becerra, Arturo ^a   Delaye, Luis ^a   Lazcano, Antonio ^a   Orgel, Leslie E ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; Last common ancestor; Protein disulfide oxidoreductases; Thermophily

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATALYSIS; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENETIC SPECIATION; HEAT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EUKARYOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA;

EID: 35248875651     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-007-9005-0     Document Type: Article

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