Identifying functionally important mutations from phenotypically diverse sequence data

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3696-3701

  Jensen, Kyle ^a   Alper, Hal ^a   Fischer, Curt ^a   Stephanopoulos, Gregory ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIVERSE PHENOTYPES; MULTINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; PHENOTYPIC CONTRIBUTIONS; PHENOTYPIC MANIFESTATIONS; PROMOTER ACTIVITY;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33646581979     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.5.3696-3701.2006     Document Type: Article

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