The eukaryotic ancestor had a complex ubiquitin signaling system of archaeal origin

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 726-739

  Grau Bové, Xavier ^a   Sebé Pedrós, Arnau ^a   Ruiz Trillo, Iñaki ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Eukaryogenesis; FECA; LECA; Multicellularity; Post translational signaling; SUMO; Ubiquitin; Ufm1

Indexed keywords

KINESIN; MYOSIN; PROTEIN; SUMO PROTEIN; UB FOLD MODIFIER 1 PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; CRENARCHAEOTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EURYARCHAEOTA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLICEOSOME; ARCHAEAL GENE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; GENES, ARCHAEAL; PHYLOGENY; SMALL UBIQUITIN-RELATED MODIFIER PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 84982187989     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu334     Document Type: Article

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