Group 1 LEA proteins, an ancestral plant protein group, are also present in other eukaryotes, and in the archeae and bacteria domains

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 288, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 503-517

  Campos, F ^a   Cuevas Velazquez, C ^a   Fares, M A ^b   Reyes, J L ^a   Covarrubias, A A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

Em proteins; Enzyme protection; GsiB; Hydrophilins; LEA proteins; YciG

Indexed keywords

GROUP 1 LATE EMBRYOGENESIS ABUNDANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; ARTEMIA; ARTEMIA FRANCISCANA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROPHYITA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FIRMICUTES; FREEZE THAWING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GREEN ALGA; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOPHYTA; WATER DEFICIT;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYTA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOPHYTA; WATER DEPRIVATION;

ARTEMIA FRANCISCANA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOPHYTA;

EID: 84885625938     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: 16174623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-013-0768-2     Document Type: Article

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