Correlations between nucleotide frequencies and amino acid composition in 115 bacterial species

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 315, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1097-1103

  Bharanidharan, D ^a   Bhargavi, G Ramya ^a   Uthanumallian, Kavitha ^a   Gautham, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Amino acid composition; Dinucleotide; Mononucleotide; Selection pressure

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; NUCLEOTIDE; SERINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 1342345235     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.01.129     Document Type: Article

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