Research Topics
Genomes and GenesSpecies | Feng Jie SunSummaryAffiliation: University of Illinois Country: USA Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Transfer RNA and the origins of diversified lifeFeng Jie Sun
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA
Sci Prog 91:265-84. 2008....
The ancient history of the structure of ribonuclease P and the early origins of ArchaeaFeng Jie Sun
Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 11:153. 2010..It represents an important macromolecular complex and model system that is universally distributed in life. Its putative origins have inspired fundamental hypotheses, including the proposal of an ancient RNA world...
The evolutionary history of the structure of 5S ribosomal RNAFeng Jie Sun
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 332 National Soybean Research Center, 1101 West Peabody Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Mol Evol 69:430-43. 2009..The molecule therefore represents a late evolutionary addition to the ribosomal ensemble that occurred prior to the early diversification of Archaea...
Common evolutionary trends for SINE RNA structuresFeng Jie Sun
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Trends Genet 23:26-33. 2007..Based on these results, we propose a general multistep model for the evolution of tRNA-related SINEs in eukaryotes...
The origin and evolution of tRNA inferred from phylogenetic analysis of structureFeng Jie Sun
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 332 NSRC, 1101 West Peabody Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Mol Evol 66:21-35. 2008..The DHU arm was then incorporated into the resulting three-stemmed structure to form a proto-cloverleaf structure. The variable region was the last structural addition to the molecular repertoire of evolving tRNA substructures...
The origin of modern 5S rRNA: a case of relating models of structural history to phylogenetic dataFeng Jie Sun
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 332 National Soybean Research Center, 1101 W Peabody Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Mol Evol 71:3-5. 2010..When combined with additional data, such as the age of protein domains that interact with RNA substructures, these trees can be used to falsify unlikely hypotheses...
Genomic isolation of genes encoding starch branching enzyme II (SBEII) in apple: toward characterization of evolutionary disparity in SbeII genes between monocots and eudicotsYuepeng Han
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Planta 226:1265-76. 2007..In monocots, the duplication of SbeII genes must have occurred prior to the radiation of grasses (Poaceae); while, in eudicots, the expansion of SbeII genes must have followed the process of speciation...
Gene-interleaving patterns of synteny in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome: are they proof of an ancient genome duplication event?Nicolas Martin
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1101 W Peabody Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Biol Direct 2:23. 2007..We here test, using Hannenhalli-Pevzner rearrangement algorithms that address the multiple genome rearrangement problem, whether syntenic patterns are proof of paleopolyploidization...
Three orthologs in rice, Arabidopsis, and Populus encoding starch branching enzymes (SBEs) are different from other SBE gene families in plantsYuepeng Han
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Gene 401:123-30. 2007..Based on phylogenetic analysis and genomic structure comparison, it is proposed that the three SBE genes represent a new family of SBEs...
Origins and evolution of modern biochemistry: insights from genomes and molecular structureGustavo Caetano-Anolles
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Front Biosci 13:5212-40. 2008....
Comparative genomic and phylogenetic analyses reveal the evolution of the core two-component signal transduction systems in enterobacteriaMingsheng Qi
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Mol Evol 70:167-80. 2010....
Evolutionary patterns in the sequence and structure of transfer RNA: early origins of archaea and virusesFeng Jie Sun
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
PLoS Comput Biol 4:e1000018. 2008..Results are also consistent with the concept that viruses contributed to the development of the DNA replication machinery during the early diversification of the living world...
Evolutionary patterns in the sequence and structure of transfer RNA: a window into early translation and the genetic codeFeng Jie Sun
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2799. 2008..These histories were probably curbed by co-options and important take-overs during early diversification of the living world...
