Gain and loss of an intron in a protein-coding gene in Archaea: The case of an archaeal RNA pseudouridine synthase gene

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Yokobori, Shin Ichi ^a   Itoh, Takashi ^b   Yoshinari, Shigeo ^c   Nomura, Norimichi ^d   Sako, Yoshihiko ^d   Yamagishi, Akihiko ^a   Oshima, Tairo ^e   Kita, Kiyoshi ^c   Watanabe, Yohichi ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Institute of Environmental Microbiology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL RNA; DYSKERIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PSEUDOURIDINE; SYNTHETASE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; MUTASE; PSEUDOURIDINE SYNTHASES; RNA PRECURSOR;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DESULFUROCOCCALES; GENE SEQUENCE; INDEL MUTATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; SULFOLOBALES; ARCHAEAL GENE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AEROPYRUM PERNIX; ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; DESULFUROCOCCALES; EUKARYOTA; HYPERTHERMUS BUTYLICUS; IGNICOCCUS ISLANDICUS; PYRODICTIUM OCCULTUM; PYROLOBUS FUMARII; SULFOLOBALES; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, ARCHAEAL; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, ARCHAEAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 69949119763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-198     Document Type: Article

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