Unraveling the evolutionary history of the phosphoryl-transfer chain of the phosphoenolpyruvate:phosphotransferase system through phylogenetic analyses and genome context

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Comas, Iñaki ^a   González Candelas, Fernando ^a   Zúñiga, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AQUIFICALES; ARTICLE; DEINOCOCCUS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EVOLUTION; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLACEAE; PHYLOGENY; SHEWANELLA; THERMOTOGALES; THERMUS; VIBRIONACEAE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AQUIFICALES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; PASTEURELLACEAE; PROTEOBACTERIA; SHEWANELLACEAE; THERMOTOGALES; VIBRIONACEAE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 44449170459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-147     Document Type: Article

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