Stabilization of the genome of the mismatch repair deficient Mycobacterium tuberculosis by context-dependent codon choice

BMC Genomics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wanner, Roger M ^a   Güthlein, Carolin ^a   Springer, Burkhard ^b   Böttger, Erik C ^a   Ackermann, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC STABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TETRANUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

CODON; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 45749085292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-249     Document Type: Article

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