Selective advantages created by codon ambiguity allowed for the evolution of an alternative genetic code in Candida spp.

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 937-947

  Santos, Manuel A S ^a   Cheesman, Caroline ^a   Costa, Vitor ^b   Moradas Ferreira, Pedro ^b   Tuite, Mick F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; LEUCINE; SERINE;

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ARSENITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CANDIDA; CELL SURVIVAL; CODON; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEUCINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NAPHTHOQUINONES; RNA, TRANSFER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SERINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TEMPERATURE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032911874     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01233.x     Document Type: Article

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