The evolutionary consequences of erroneous protein synthesis

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 715-724

  Allan Drummond, D ^a   Wilke, Claus O ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CODON USAGE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SPLICING DEFECT;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70349333227     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2662     Document Type: Review

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