Nucleotide sequence determines the accelerated rate of point mutations

Toxicon

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 295-304

  Kini, R Manjunatha ^a,b   Chinnasamy, Arunkumar ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated evolution; Codon bias; Evolution of proteins; Mutation rates in proteins

Indexed keywords

CARDIOTOXIN; DNA; NEUROTOXIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOXIN ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; EXONS; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; INTRONS; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 77954142216     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2009.12.022     Document Type: Article

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