Genomic arrangement of bacterial operons is constrained by biological pathways encoded in the genome

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6310-6315

  Yin, Yanbin ^a,b   Zhang, Han ^a,d   Olman, Victor ^a   Xu, Ying ^a,b,c  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Energy BioEnergy Science Center ^*  (United States)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacterial genome; Bioinformatics; Genome organization; Neighboring genes; Nucleoid

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77950912269     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911237107     Document Type: Article

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