Article
Functional diversity, conservation, and convergence in the evolution of the alpha-, beta-, and gamma-carbonic anhydrase gene families.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Feb 1996
Hewett-Emmett D, Tashian R E
Abstract excerpt
The carbonic anhydrases (CA) catalyze with high efficiency the reversible hydration of carbon dioxide, a reaction underlying many diverse physiological processes in animals, plants, archaebacteria, and eubacteria. We examined the evolutionary history and functional convergence of the CAs encoded...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Bacteria
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites
- Carbonic Anhydrases
- Conserved Sequence
- DNA
- Databases, Factual
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Introns
- Isoenzymes
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Phylogeny