New insight into the evolution of aquaporins from flowering plants and vertebrates: Orthologous identification and functional transfer is possible

Gene

Volumn 503, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 165-176

  Soto, Gabriela ^a,b,c   Alleva, Karina ^a,d   Amodeo, Gabriela ^a,d   Muschietti, Jorge ^a,c,d   Ayub, Nicolás Daniel ^a,b  

^a Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aquaporin; Evolution; Gene transfer; Orthologs

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 2; AQUAPORIN 3; AQUAPORIN 4; AQUAPORIN 5; AQUAPORIN 6; AQUAPORIN 8; AQUAPORIN 9; BACTERIAL GLYCEROL TRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEINS AND BINDING PROTEINS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARABIDOPSIS; EUDICOT; FLOWERING; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSFER; GRAIN; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; HORDEUM; HUMAN; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOCOT; MOUSE; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT GENETICS; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RATTUS NORVERGICUS; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; VERTEBRATES; WATER;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; HOMO SAPIENS; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PIPS; PISCES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84861765103     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.04.021     Document Type: Letter

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