Compositional nonrandomness upstream of start codons in archaebacteria

Gene

Volumn 332, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 89-95

  Fuglsang, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Archaebacteria; DNA composition; Leaderless transcripts; Nonrandomness; Shine Dalgarno regions

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GUANINE; THYMINE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TATA BOX;

5' FLANKING REGION; ALGORITHMS; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; STATISTICS;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 2442528810     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.02.022     Document Type: Article

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