Uracil content of 16S rRNA of thermophilic and psychrophilic prokaryotes correlates inversely with their optimal growth temperatures

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4016-4022

  Khachane, Amit N ^a   Timmis, Kenneth N ^a   dos Santos, Vítor A P Martins ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; URACIL; ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ADAPTATION; BASE PAIRING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; COLD; CYTOLOGY; HEAT; PROKARYOTIC CELL; TEMPERATURE;

PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED PROKARYOTE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; BASE PAIRING; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLD; HEAT; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TEMPERATURE; URACIL;

EID: 22244456412     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki714     Document Type: Article

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