An atomic-resolution view of neofunctionalization in the evolution of apicomplexan lactate dehydrogenases

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Boucher, Jeffrey I ^a   Jacobowitz, Joseph R ^a   Beckett, Brian C ^a   Classen, Scott ^b   Theobald, Douglas L ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; OXALOACETIC ACID;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE ROOT; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STEADY STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905192854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02304.001     Document Type: Article

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