Transposases are the most abundant, most ubiquitous genes in nature

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 4207-4217

  Aziz, Ramy K ^a,b   Breitbart, Mya ^c   Edwards, Robert A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d San Diego State University   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ACYLTRANSFERASE; CHEMOTAXIS ACTIVATOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; INTEGRASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERMEASE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRANSPOSASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 4 EPIMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EUKARYOTE; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; METAGENOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VIRUS GENOME;

GENES; GENOMICS; METAGENOME; TRANSPOSASES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 77955233623     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq140     Document Type: Article

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