Mitochondrial protein import receptors in Kinetoplastids reveal convergent evolution over large phylogenetic distances

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Mani, Jan ^a   Desy, Silvia ^a   Niemann, Moritz ^a   Chanfon, Astrid ^a   Oeljeklaus, Silke ^b   Pusnik, Mascha ^a,c   Schmidt, Oliver ^b,d   Gerbeth, Carolin ^b   Meisinger, Chris ^b   Warscheid, Bettina ^b   Schneider, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM46 PROTEIN; ATOM69 PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; KINETOPLAST DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN IMPORT RECEPTOR; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RECEPTOR; TRANSLOCASE OF OUTER MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE 20; TRANSLOCASE OF OUTER MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE 70; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TOM TRANSLOCASE;

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; HOMOLOGY; MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; PHYLOGENETICS; PLASTID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KINETOPLASTIDA; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEOMICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; CELL LINE; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; KINETOPLASTIDA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 84925710781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7646     Document Type: Article

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