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SUBMITTER: Hashimoto T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC22662 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hashimoto T T Sánchez L B LB Shirakura T T Müller M M Hasegawa M M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19980601 12
Nuclear-coded valyl-tRNA synthetase (ValRS) of eukaryotes is regarded of mitochondrial origin. Complete ValRS sequences obtained by us from two amitochondriate protists, the diplomonad, Giardia lamblia and the parabasalid, Trichomonas vaginalis were of the eukaryotic type, strongly suggesting an identical history of ValRS in all eukaryotes studied so far. The findings indicate that diplomonads are secondarily amitochondriate and give further evidence for such conclusion reached recently concerni ...[more]