Evolutionary and functional insights into Leishmania META1: Evidence for lateral gene transfer and a role for META1 in secretion

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Puri, Vidhi ^a   Goyal, Aneesh ^a,c   Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ^a   Enright, Anton J ^b   Vaidya, Tushar ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c SYNGENE INTERNATIONAL LTD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HOMOLOGY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTAGENICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN; SECRETION; SELECTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KINETOPLASTIDA; SHIGELLA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; META1 PROTEIN, LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LEISHMANIA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SECRETION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LEISHMANIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 81155138354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-334     Document Type: Article

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