Molecular cold-adaptation: Comparative analysis of two homologous families of psychrophilic and mesophilic signal proteins of the protozoan ciliate, Euplotes

IUBMB Life

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 838-845

  Alimenti, Claudio ^a   Vallesi, Adriana ^a   Pedrini, Bill ^b,c   Wüthrich, Kurt ^b,c   Luporini, Pierangelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Eukaryotic molecular microbiology; Life in the cold; Marine Antarctic protists; NMR protein structures

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; PHENYLALANINE; PHEROMONE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES NOBILII; EUPLOTES RAIKOVI; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES NOBILII; EUPLOTES RAIKOVI; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLD TEMPERATURE; EUPLOTES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHEROMONES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 70350734314     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.228     Document Type: Review

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