Codon usages in different gene classes of the Escherichia coli genome

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1341-1355

  Karlin, Samuel ^a   Mrázek, Jan ^a   Campbell, Allan M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; CHAPERONIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CODON USAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; YEAST;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CODON; COLIPHAGES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; OPERON; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031720281     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01008.x     Document Type: Article

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