Statistical evaluation of the rodin-ohno hypothesis: Sense/antisense coding of ancestral class i and II aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1588-1604

  Chandrasekaran, Srinivas Niranj ^a   Yardimci, Galip Gürkan ^a,b   Erdogan, Ozgün ^a   Roach, Jeffrey ^a   Carter, Charles W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

aminoacyl tRNA synthetases; ancestral gene reconstruction; multiple sequence alignment; multiple structure alignment; origin of translation; protein modularity; sense antisense double open reading frames

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; HISTIDINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TRYPTOPHAN TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CODON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINOACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANCESTRAL GENE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; MULTIPLE STRUCTURE ALIGNMENT; ORIGIN OF TRANSLATION; PROTEIN MODULARITY; SENSE/ANTISENSE DOUBLE OPEN READING FRAMES;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTIDINE-TRNA LIGASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TRYPTOPHAN-TRNA LIGASE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84879405227     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst070     Document Type: Article

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