Interdomain lateral gene transfer of an essential ferrochelatase gene in human parasitic nematodes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7748-7753

  Wu, Bo ^a   Novelli, Jacopo ^a,g   Jiang, Daojun ^b   Dailey, Harry A ^c,d   Landmann, Frédéric ^e   Ford, Louise ^f   Taylor, Mark J ^f   Carlow, Clotilde K S ^a   Kumar, Sanjay ^a   Foster, Jeremy M ^a   Slatko, Barton E ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Biomedical Health Sciences Institute   (United States)

^d University of Georgia   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^g SYNTHON BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; FERROCHELATASE; HEME;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; EXON; FILARIA; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; HEME SYNTHESIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MITOCHONDRION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BAYES THEOREM; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXONS; FEMALE; FERROCHELATASE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84877345730     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1304049110     Document Type: Article

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