Relationship between G+C content, ORF-length and mRNA concentration in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Yeast

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 703-711

  Marín, Antonio ^a   Gallardo, Mercedes ^a   Kato, Yuki ^b,c   Shirahige, Katsuhiko ^c   Gutiérrez, Gabriel ^a   Ohta, Kunihiro ^d   Aguilera, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d Genetic Dynamics Research Unit Lab   (Japan)

Author keywords

ORF G+C content; ORF length; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; tho2; thp1; Transcriptome analysis

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANOSINE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA CONTENT; DNA MICROARRAY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0038818916     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.992     Document Type: Article

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