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RJLs: a new family of Ras-related GTP-binding proteins.
Gene - 3 Mar 2004
Nepomuceno-Silva José L, de Melo Luiz Dione B, Mendonçã Sergio M, Paixão Julio C, Lopes Ulisses G
Abstract excerpt
The Ras superfamily of GTP binding proteins encompasses several gene families that regulate a plethora of events in the eukaryotic cell. Here we describe a novel branch of this superfamily which we have named RJLs. These are present in many unicellular organisms and also in deuterostomes but apparently missing in some intermediary phyla, suggesting an intriguing possibility of lateral gene transference between...
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