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Evolution of vacuolar proton pyrophosphatase domains and volutin granules: clues into the early evolutionary origin of the acidocalcisome
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* Corresponding author: Manfredo J Seufferheld seufferh@illinois.edu
1 Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL USA
2 Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL USA
3 Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC), Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 305-806, Korea
4 Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL, USA
5 Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Museum of Biological Diversity, 1315 Kinnear Rd., Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Biology Direct 2011, 6:50 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-6-50
Published: 5 October 2011Additional files
Additional file 1:
Multiple alignments of PF03030 domain sequences distributed in the three superkingdoms (Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya). Shown above is the strongly conserved 57-residue region of the V-H+-PPase identified by Hedlund et al [53] and viewed using JALVIEW provided by the Pfam database.
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Additional file 2:
Taxa and accession numbers used in the phylogenetic analyses.
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