Optimal growth temperature of prokaryotes correlates with class II amino acid composition

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1672-1676

  Klipcan, Liron ^a   Safro, Ilya ^a   Temkin, Boris ^a   Safro, Mark ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Class II aaRSs; Evolution; Mesophiles; Thermal adaptation; Thermophiles

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SPECIES; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACIDS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; SOFTWARE; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33344467805     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.02.013     Document Type: Article

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