Ancestral and derived protein import pathways in the mitochondrion of reclinomonas americana

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1581-1591

  Tong, Janette ^a   Dolezal, Pavel ^a,b   Selkrig, Joel ^a   Crawford, Simon ^c   Simpson, Alastair G B ^d   Noinaj, Nicholas ^e   Buchanan, Susan K ^e   Gabriel, Kipros ^a   Lithgow, Trevor ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

mitochondria; protein import; Reclinomonas americana; SecY; translocon; transport pathway

Indexed keywords

COX11 PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; HYDROPHOBICITY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOON; RECLINOMONAS AMERICANA;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTISTA; RECLINOMONAS AMERICANA;

EID: 79955441214     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq305     Document Type: Article

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