The ice-binding proteins of a snow alga, Chloromonas brevispina: probable acquisition by horizontal gene transfer

Extremophiles

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 987-994

  Raymond, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloromonas brevispina; DUF3494; Ice binding proteins; Snow alga

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; SNOW; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CHLAMYDOMONAS; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SNOW;

EID: 84937512033     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-014-0668-3     Document Type: Article

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