Using codon usage to predict genes origin: Is the Escherichia coli outer membrane a patchwork of products from different genomes?

DNA Research

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 257-265

  Guerdoux Jamet, Pascale ^a   Hénaut, Alain ^b   Nitschké, Patrick ^b   Risler, Jean Loup ^b   Danchin, Antoine ^c  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Horizontal transfer; LPS; Outer membrane; Porins

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 0031592733     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/4.4.257     Document Type: Article

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