Evolutionarily conserved optimization of amino acid biosynthesis

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 186-196

  Perlstein, Ethan O ^a,b   De Bivort, Benjamin L ^b   Kunes, Samuel ^b   Schreiber, Stuart L ^a,c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid starvation; Amino acid usage bias; Metabolic adaptation; Sequence evolution

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARAGINE; GLYCINE; METHIONINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACIDS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34548533206     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-007-0013-x     Document Type: Article

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