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A genomic glimpse of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Tarun K Bhatt1, Charu Kapil1,2, Sameena Khan1,3, Mohamad A Jairajpuri2, Vinay Sharma3, Daniele Santoni4,5, Francesco Silvestrini5, Elisabetta Pizzi5 and Amit Sharma1*

Author Affiliations

1 Structural and Computational Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi 110 067, India

2 Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Jamia Nagar, New-Delhi 110 025, India

3 Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith University, Banasthali, Rajasthan 304 022, India

4 Barcelona Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona Science Park, C/Samitier 1-5, Barcelona 08015, Catalonia, Spain

5 Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive, Parassitarie ed Immunomediate, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161 Rome, Italy

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:644 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-644

Published: 31 December 2009

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Additional file 1:

List of Pf-aaRSs categorized into class I, class II, and related proteins. Gene ID, gene location, description of product and its length are given.

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Additional file 2:

Phylogenetic trees of aaRSs from P. falciparum. The evolutionary tree was constructed by the method PHYML using the MEGA 4.0. P. falciparum aaRSs are labeled green triangles. 102 species considered for the evolutionary analysis are taken from the three domains of life viz. P. berghei, P. chabaudi, P. falciparum, P. knowlesi, P. yoelii, P. vivax, H. sapiens, M. tuberculosis, D. discoidium, M. jannaschii, R. norvegicus, C. parvum, B. bovis, S. cerevisiae, D. melanogaster, Y. pestis, T. aquaticus, S. pneumoniae, S. entrica, E. coli, A. thaliana, A. pisum, A. salmonicida, B. cereus, B. thuringiensis, B. afzelii, B. burgdorferi, B. garinii, B. valaisiana, Bradyrhizobium, B. pennsylvanicus, C. acidaminovorans, H. defensa, C. taiwanensis, E. fergusonii, F. bacterium, F. novicida, F. tularensis, F. alni, G. tenuistipitata, H. arsenicoxydans, A. cellulolyticus, A. chlorophenolicus, A. ferrooxidans, Algoriphagus, A. muciniphila, Anaeromyxobacter, A. thermophilum, B. ambifaria, B. indica, B. mycoides, B. taurus, B. tribocorum, C. atlanticus, Caulobacter, C. aurantiacus, C. cellulolyticum, Citrobacter, C. pinensis, C. Ruthia, Cyanothece, D. desulfuricans, D. hafniense, Diaphorobacter, D. shibae, D. turgidum, E. cuniculi, E. lenta, E. ruminantium, Exiguobacterium, G. diazotrophicus, Geobacillus, M. maris, N. multipartita, Nocardioides, O. terrae, P. abelii, P. atlantica, P. denitrificans, P. ingrahamii, P. lavamentivorans, R. castenholzii, S. arenicola, S. fumaroxidans, X. autotrophicus, V. vadensis, V. paradoxus, T. whipplei, T. auensis, S. stellata, Ch. parvum, S. heliotrinireducens, Silicibacter, S. putrefaciens, S. usitatus, Thauera, X. laevis, Theileria annulata, Vibrio fischeri, W. succinogenes, X. tropicalis, Zeamays.

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