Euglena gracilis and trypanosomatids possess common patterns in predicted mitochondrial targeting presequences

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 75, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 119-129

  Krnáčová, Katarína ^a   Vesteg, Matej ^a,b   Hampl, Vladimír ^c   Vlček, Čestmír ^d   Horváth, Anton ^a  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cleaved targeting sequence; Euglenids; Euglenozoa; Excavata; Kinetoplastids; Mitochondrial protein import; Protein motifs

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; EUGLENA GRACILIS; GENETICS; KINETOPLASTIDA; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

ALGAE; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENIDA; EUGLENOZOA; EUKARYOTA; EXCAVATA; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTISTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 84872744233     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-012-9523-2     Document Type: Article

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