Phylogenomic analyses reveal the evolutionary origin of the inhibin α-subunit, a unique TGFβ superfamily antagonist

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Zhu, Jie ^a   Braun, Edward L ^b   Kohno, Satomi ^b   Antenos, Monica ^a   Xu, Eugene Y ^a   Cook, Robert W ^a   Lin, S Jack ^c   Moore, Brandon C ^b   Guillette Jr , Louis J ^b   Jardetzky, Theodore S ^c   Woodruff, Teresa K ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INHIBIN A; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; INHIBIN; INHIBIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; INHIBIN-ALPHA SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; DIMERIZATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DIMERIZATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 77949836747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009457     Document Type: Article

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