The compartmentalized bacteria of the planctomycetes-verrucomicrobia-chlamydiae superphylum have membrane coat-like proteins.

The development of the endomembrane system was a major step in eukaryotic evolution. Membrane coats, which exhibit a unique arrangement of beta-propeller and alpha-helical repeat domains, play key roles in shaping eukaryotic membranes. Such proteins are likely to have been present in the ancestral e...

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Main Authors: Rachel Santarella-Mellwig, Josef Franke, Andreas Jaedicke, Mátyás Gorjánácz, Ulrike Bauer, Aidan Budd, Iain W Mattaj, Damien P Devos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20087413/?tool=EBI