Domain movement within a gene: A novel evolutionary mechanism for protein diversification

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Furuta, Yoshikazu ^a   Kawai, Mikihiko ^a,b   Uchiyama, Ikuo ^b   Kobayashi, Ichizo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; TYPE I SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA RESTRICTION; DOMAIN SHUFFLING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 79955043529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018819     Document Type: Article

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