DNA asymmetric strand bias affects the amino acid composition of mitochondrial proteins

DNA Research

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 201-206

  Min, Xiang Jia ^a   Hickey, Donal A ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Codon usage; Mitochondrion; Strand asymmetry

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PLATYHELMINTH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DNA; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MAMMALS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PLATYHELMINTHS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 39749188243     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: 17561663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsm019     Document Type: Article

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