Nitrile hydratase genes are present in multiple eukaryotic supergroups

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Marron, Alan O ^a   Akam, Michael ^a   Walker, Giselle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRILE HYDRATASE; HYDROLYASE;

ALPHA CHAIN; ALVEOLATA; AMOEBOZOA; APUSOZOA; ARCHAEPLASTIDA; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; CLADISTICS; DINOFLAGELLATE; EUKARYOTE; FUSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAPTOPHYTA; ICHTHYOSPOREA; INTRON; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPISTHOKONTA; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE; PROTOZOON; RHIZARIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAMENOPILE; DNA BARCODING; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMOEBOZOA; ANIMALIA; APUSOZOA; ARCHAEPLASTIDA; AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERENS; CHOANOFLAGELLIDA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP; HAPTOPHYCEAE; ICHTHYOSPOREA; MONOSIGA BREVICOLLIS; PROKARYOTA; RHIZARIA; STRAMENOPILES;

DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HYDRO-LYASES; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84859575066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032867     Document Type: Article

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