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New insights into the phylogenetic distribution and evolutionary origins of the septins
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Ryuichi Nishihama
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August 1, 2011
Abstract
Until recently, it had appeared that the septin family of proteins was restricted to the opisthokont eukaryotes (the fungi and animals and their close relatives the microsporidia and choanoflagellates). It has now become apparent that septins are also present in several other widely divergent eukaryotic lineages (chlorophyte algae, brown algae, and ciliates). This distribution and the details of the non-opisthokont septin sequences appear to require major revisions to hypotheses about the origins and early evolution of the septins.
Keywords: brown algae; chlorophyte algae; ciliates; cytokinesis; green algae; guanine-nucleotide-binding proteins
Received: 2011-5-3
Accepted: 2011-6-30
Published Online: 2011-08-01
Published in Print: 2011-08-01
©2011 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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Keywords for this article
brown algae;
chlorophyte algae;
ciliates;
cytokinesis;
green algae;
guanine-nucleotide-binding proteins
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- Editorial
- Highlight on septins
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- Septin9 is involved in septin filament formation and cellular stability
- Lethal phenotype of mice carrying a Sept11 null mutation
- ARTS, the unusual septin: structural and functional aspects
- Structural and biochemical properties of Sept7, a unique septin required for filament formation
- Septins at the annulus of mammalian sperm
- The mother-bud neck as a signaling platform for the coordination between spindle position and cytokinesis in budding yeast
- Evidence that a septin diffusion barrier is dispensable for cytokinesis in budding yeast
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