Nucleotide compositional constraints on genomes generate alanine-, glycine-, and proline-rich structures in transcription factors

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1042-1049

  Nakachi, Yutaka ^a   Hayakawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Oota, Hiroki ^a   Sumiyama, Kenta ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Ueda, Shintaroh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

GC pressure; POU; Reptile; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; DNA FRAGMENT; GLYCINE; PROLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

INVERTEBRATA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030953366     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025710     Document Type: Article

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