Unexpected correlations between gene expression and codon usage bias from microarray data for the whole Escherichia coli K-12 genome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 6976-6985

  dos Reis, Mario ^a   Wernisch, Lorenz ^a   Savva, Renos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; MESSENGER RNA; THYMINE;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; YEAST;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0344237338     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg897     Document Type: Review

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