Reconstruction of the evolutionary history of the LexA-binding sequence

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3783-3795

  Mazón, Gerard ^a   Erill, Ivan ^b   Campoy, Susana ^c   Cortés, Pilar ^a   Forano, Evelyne ^d   Barbé, Jordi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE DE RECERCA EN SANITAT ANIMAL CRESA   (Spain)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; LEXA PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SOS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA FOOTPRINTING; EVOLUTION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTAGENESIS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CYANOBACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIBROBACTER; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CYANOBACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIBROBACTER SUCCINOGENES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LANES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 9144266449     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27315-0     Document Type: Article

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