Intergenic regions of Borrelia plasmids contain phylogenetically conserved RNA secondary structure motifs

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Delihas, Nicholas ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENT REGULATOR ACQUIRING SURFACE PROTEIN 1; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; LIPOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; COMPUTER MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BORRELIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 65349190523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-101     Document Type: Article

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