Is HAP2-GCS1 an ancestral gamete fusogen?

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 134-141

  Wong, Julian L ^a   Johnson, Mark A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAP2 GCS1 PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SURFACE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; DNA RESTRICTION; EUKARYOTE; FERTILIZATION; FUSION GENE; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; EUKARYOTA; FERTILIZATION; GERM CELLS; MEMBRANE FUSION; PLANTS; PLASMODIUM; SNARE PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 77249172226     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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