Widespread selection for local RNA secondary structure in coding regions of bacterial genes

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2042-2051

  Katz, Luba ^a   Burge, Christopher B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CISTRON; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CODE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; RNA; RNA STABILITY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

EID: 0141519339     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1257503     Document Type: Article

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