Experimental evidence for the thermophilicity of ancestral life

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

Volumn 110, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 11067-11072

  Akanuma, Satoshi ^a   Nakajima, Yoshiki ^a   Yokobori, Shin Ichi ^a   Kimura, Mitsuo ^a   Nemoto, Naoki ^a,c   Mase, Tomoko ^b   Miyazono, Ken Ichi ^b   Tanokura, Masaru ^b   Yamagishi, Akihiko ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ancient protein; Crystal structure; Last universal common ancestor; Molecular resurrection; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL ORGANISM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOPHILIC ARCHAEON; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOSTABILITY;

ANCIENT PROTEIN; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LAST UNIVERSAL COMMON ANCESTOR; MOLECULAR RESURRECTION; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOGENESIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENZYME STABILITY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSIDE-DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84879704517     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308215110     Document Type: Article

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