Phosphatase Glossary
Cell signaling
Fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase
A signal molecule that controls glycolysis and overall intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels. Also see wikipedia page.
Taxonomic Terms
Holozoa
Metazoan + unicellular Choanoflagellates (sequenced genomes include Monosiga brevicollis and Salpingoeca rosetta), and the more basal clades Filasteria (e.g. Capsaspora owczarzaki and Ministeria vibrans), Ichthyosporea (fish parasites including Amoebidium parasiticum). These unicellular holozoa (sometimes called Choanozoa, though this is most likely to be paraphyletic) have a large number of kinases and other genes that were previously thought to be animal-specific and so are of strong interest to understand the origins of animals. The closest major out-group of the holozoa are the fungi.
Metazoa
Eumetazoa
Opisthokont
Ecdysozoa
Bioinformatics
SCOP
Structural Classification of Proteins is a database of protein structural relationships. There are two versions: SCOPe at Berkeley and SCOP2 at MRC, Cambridge, UK.
Pfam
The Pfam database is a large collection of protein domain families. Each family is represented by multiple sequence alignments and hidden Markov models (HMMs). Link.