In silico resurrection of the major vault protein suggests it is ancestral in modern eukaryotes

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1567-1583

  Daly, Toni K ^a   Sutherland Smith, Andrew J ^a   Penny, David ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ancestral reconstruction (ASR); BLAST; I TASSER; Last eukaryotic common ancestor; Rosetta Dock; Vault ribonucleoprotein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LUNG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALVEOLATA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMOEBOZOA; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RAT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ANCESTRAL RECONSTRUCTION (ASR); ARTICLE; I-TASSER; LAST EUKARYOTIC COMMON ANCESTOR; PRESSURE WAVE; ROSETTADOCK; VAULT RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ALVEOLATA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMOEBOZOA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOANOFLAGELLATA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VAULT RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN PARTICLES;

ANCESTRAL RECONSTRUCTION (ASR); BLAST; I-TASSER; LAST EUKARYOTIC COMMON ANCESTOR; ROSETTADOCK; VAULT RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

EID: 84891645371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt113     Document Type: Article

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