Excessive clustering of third codon position pyrimidines in prokaryotes

Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 647-653

  Rapoport, Alexandra E ^a   Trifonov, Edward N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Closed loops; Clustering of pyrimidines; Code degeneracy; Neutral evolution; Protein folding; Third codon positions; Transcription pausing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; CODON; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 43749096391     PISSN: 07391102     EISSN: 15380254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2008.10507211     Document Type: Article

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