Optimality of codon usage in Escherichia coli due to load minimization

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 203-209

  Najafabadi, Hamed Shateri ^a   Goodarzi, Hani ^a   Torabi, Noorossadat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Genetic code; Load minimization; Synonymous codons

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

GENETIC ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; ERROR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION;

CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LOAD; MODELS, GENETIC; POINT MUTATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 26044472467     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.04.007     Document Type: Article

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