An Analysis of Determinants of Amino Acids Substitution Rates in Bacterial Proteins

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 108-116

  Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a,b   Danchin, Antoine ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c HKU PASTEUR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Essentiality; Eukaryotes; Expression levels; Functional categories; Protein evolution; Substitution rates

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 1242284655     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh004     Document Type: Article

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