Identification of novel mammalian caspases reveals an important role of gene loss in shaping the human caspase repertoire

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 831-841

  Eckhart, Leopold ^a   Ballaun, Claudia ^a   Hermann, Marcela ^b   VandeBerg, John L ^c   Sipos, Wolfgang ^d   Uthman, Aumaid ^a,e   Fischer, Heinz ^a   Tschachler, Erwin ^a  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SULAIMANI   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Caspase; Comparative genomics; Gene duplication; Gene loss; Mammals

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CASPASE 10; CASPASE 12; CASPASE 14; CASPASE 15; CASPASE 16; CASPASE 17; CASPASE 18; CASPASE 2; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 4; CASPASE 5; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; IPRIFLAVONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DATA BASE; DOG; EXON; FISH; FROG; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INTRON; LIZARD; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PLATYPUS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; VERTEBRATE;

ANTENNARIUS BIOCELLATUS; DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MURINAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SQUAMATA; THERIA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASES; CHICKENS; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; INTRONS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS; PHYLOGENY; PLATYPUS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 46649096691     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn012     Document Type: Article

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