Insights into the evolution of Archaea and eukaryotic protein modifier systems revealed by the genome of a novel archaeal group

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3204-3223

  Nunoura, Takuro ^a   Takaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Kakuta, Jungo ^a   Nishi, Shinro ^a   Sugahara, Junichi ^b   Kazama, Hiromi ^a   Chee, Gab Joo ^a,e   Hattori, Masahira ^c   Kanai, Akio ^b   Atomi, Haruyuki ^d   Takai, Ken ^a   Takami, Hideto ^a  

^a Institute of Biogeosciences   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Dongyang Mirae University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CALDIARCHAEUM SUBTERRANEUM; CELL CYCLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE SEQUENCE; HALOFERAX; INTRON; METAGENOMICS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UBIQUITINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITINS;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EUKARYOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; HALOFERAX; KORARCHAEOTA; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79955598535     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1228     Document Type: Article

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