A functional test of Neandertal and modern human mitochondrial targeting sequences

作者:Gralle Matthias*; Schafer Ingo; Seibel Peter; Paabo Svante
来源:Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2010, 402(4): 747-749.
DOI:10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.10.099

摘要

Targeting of nuclear-encoded proteins to different organelles such as mitochondria is a process that can result in the redeployment of proteins to new intracellular destinations during evolution With the sequencing of the Neandertal genome it has become possible to identify amino acid substitutions that occurred on the modern human lineage since its separation from the Neandertal lineage Here we analyze the function of two substitutions in mitochondrial targeting sequences that occurred and rose to high frequency recently during recent human evolution The ancestral and modern versions of the two targeting sequences

  • 出版日期2010-11-26

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