Transfer RNA gene redundancy and translational selection in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 268, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 322-330

  Percudani, Riccardo ^a   Pavesi, Angelo ^a   Ottonello, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amino acid usage; Codon usage; Search algorithm; Translational selection; tRNA gene copy number

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 17444449538     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.0942     Document Type: Article

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