Functional insight into Maelstrom in the germline piRNA pathway: A unique domain homologous to the DnaQ-H 3′-5′ exonuclease, its lineage-specific expansion/loss and evolutionarily active site switch

Biology Direct

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Zhang, Dapeng ^a   Xiong, Huiling ^a   Shan, Jufang ^b   Xia, Xuhua ^a   Trudeau, Vance L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCIDIACEA; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; PROTISTA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EXONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE H; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONUCLEASES; GERM CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61349105400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-3-48     Document Type: Article

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