An in-silico study of alphaherpesviruses ICP0 genes: Positive selection or strong mutational GC-pressure?

IUBMB Life

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 456-460

  Khrustalev, Vladislav Victorovich ^a   Barkovsky, Eugene Victorovich ^a,b  

^a BELARUSIAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^b NONE   (Belarus)

Author keywords

3GC; DN DS; ICP0; Mutational pressure; Positive selection; Simplexvirus

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; GENE 63 PROTEIN, EQUINE HERPESVIRUS 1; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; VIRUS PROTEIN; VMW110 PROTEIN, HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HERPES VIRUS 16; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITION EFFECT; VIRUS GENOME; ZINC FINGER MOTIF; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CODON; GENETICS; HERPES VIRUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CERCOPITHECINE HERPESVIRUS 16; CERCOPITHECINE HERPESVIRUS 2; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

ALGORITHMS; ALPHAHERPESVIRINAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 48849101656     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.55     Document Type: Article

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