Genetic code mutations: The breaking of a three billion year invariance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Mat, Wai Kin ^a   Xue, Hong ^a   Wong, J Tze Fei ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 FLUOROTRYPTOPHAN; 5 FLUOROTRYPTOPHAN; 6 FLUOROTRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC STABILITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENETIC CODE; MUTATION; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 77957920290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012206     Document Type: Article

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