Codon usage in highly expressed genes of Haemophillus influenzae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Translational selection versus mutational bias

Gene

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 405-413

  Pan, Archana ^a   Dutta, Chitra ^a   Das, Jyotirmoy ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Base usage; Codon adaptation index; Gene expression; Optimal codons; Skewed base composition; Synonymous codon bias

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; GUANOSINE;

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DICTYOSTELIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032581609     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00257-1     Document Type: Article

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