An unusual recent expansion of the c-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II in primate malaria parasites features a motif otherwise found only in mammalian polymerases

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 706-714

  Kishore, Sandeep P ^a   Perkins, Susan L ^b   Templeton, Thomas J ^a   Deitsch, Kirk W ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Plasmodium; Protozoa; Transcription

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LYSINE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA STRUCTURE; HEPTAD REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PRIMATES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

APICOMPLEXA; AVES; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; MUS; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIMATES; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA;

EID: 67349198160     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-009-9245-2     Document Type: Article

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