Reconstruction of a probable ancestral form of conger eel galectins revealed their rapid adaptive evolution process for specific carbohydrate recognition

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2504-2514

  Konno, Ayumu ^a   Ogawa, Tomohisa ^a   Shirai, Tsuyoshi ^b   Muramoto, Koji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Carbohydrate recognition; Galectin; Lectin; Probable ancestral form

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2,3 SIALYL GALACTOSE; CARBOHYDRATE; CONGERIN 1; CONGERIN 2; GALACTOSE; GALECTIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; EEL; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLESIOMORPHY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; THERMOSTABILITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; EELS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GALECTINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CONGRIDAE;

EID: 35848954523     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm185     Document Type: Article

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