Codon usage in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-36

  Kaplan, Jeffrey B ^a   Fine, Daniel H ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans; Codon usage; G + C content; Horizontal gene transfer; Leukotoxin; Molecular evolution; Plasmid; RTX toxin

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DNA, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; PERIODONTITIS;

EID: 0032103016     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00146-3     Document Type: Article

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