Tracing the Archaeal Origins of Eukaryotic Membrane-Trafficking System Building Blocks

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1528-1541

  Klinger, Christen M ^a   Spang, Anja ^b   Dacks, Joel B ^a   Ettema, Thijs J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Archaea; Eukaryogenesis; Lokiarchaeum; Longin domain; Membrane trafficking; Roadblock domain; Small GTPases

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; RAPAMYCIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; MONOMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTIC MEMBRANE TRAFFICKING SYSTEM; LOKIARCHAEUM; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL GENE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, ARCHAEAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 84973352485     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw034     Document Type: Article

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