Studies of codon usage and tRNA genes of 18 unicellular organisms and quantification of Bacillus subtilis tRNAs: Gene expression level and species-specific diversity of codon usage based on multivariate analysis

Gene

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 143-155

  Kanaya, Shigehiko ^a,b   Yamada, Yuko ^c   Kudo, Yoshihiro ^a   Ikemura, Toshimichi ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Natl Inst G   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Codon usage; Principal component analysis; Trna content

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CODON; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARCHAEA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; RNA, TRANSFER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; ARCHAEOGLOBUS FULGIDUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOCOCCUS; METHANOTHERMOBACTER THERMAUTOTROPHICUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PYROCOCCUS HORIKOSHII; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0032882170     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00225-5     Document Type: Article

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