For the first time ever, a synthetic eukaryotic genome has been created ... celled eukaryotic organisms (which have a nucleus and organelles with distinct functions). This synthetic genome ...

In the past 2 decades, numerous studies have been carried out to identify, analyze and engineer PUFA synthases from eukaryotes. These studies showed both similarities and differences between the ...

FIGURE 1. Phylogenetic hypothesis for the origin of eukaryotes. The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) diverged into Archaea and Bacteria. Subsequently the first eukaryotic common ancestor (FECA) ...

2014). Many of these depend on fusions between eukaryotic and viral activator domains and prokaryotic proteins (Garí et al., 1997; Ottoz et al., 2014; McIsaac et al., 2013; McIsaac et al., 2014) that ...

Spatial clustering of ribosomal proteins (r-proteins) through tertiary interactions is a striking structural feature of the eukaryotic ribosome. However, the functional importance of these intricate ...