Mitochondrial uncoupling proteins and phylogenesis – UCP4 as the ancestral uncoupling protein
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- 25 April 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 495 (3) , 137-141
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02338-9
Abstract
We searched for the previously defined uncoupling protein (UCP) signatures [Ježek, P. and Urbánková, E. (2000) IUBMB Life 49, 63–70] in genomes of Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, Dic...Keywords
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