The organellar genome and metabolic potential of the hydrogen-producing mitochondrion of nyctotherus ovalis

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2379-2391

  De Graaf, Rob M ^a   Ricard, Guenola ^b,d   Van Alen, Theo A ^a   Duarte, Isabel ^b   Dutilh, Bas E ^b   Burgtorf, Carola ^a,e   Kuiper, Jan W P ^a   Van Der Staay, Georg W M ^a,e   Tielens, Aloysius G M ^c   Huynen, Martijn A ^b   Hackstein, Johannes H P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

adaptation; evolution; horizontal gene transfer; hydrogenosome; mitochondrion; Nyctotherus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FATTY ACID; GENOMIC DNA; GLYCINE CLEAVAGE SYSTEM; HYDROGEN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PROPIONIC ACID; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FLAGELLATE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYCTOTHERUS OVALIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAL GENETICS;

BLASTOCYSTIS; CILIOPHORA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); NYCTOTHERUS; NYCTOTHERUS OVALIS; PROTEROMONAS LACERTAE;

EID: 79961055117     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr059     Document Type: Article

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