Opposite GC skews at the 5' and 3' ends of genes in unicellular fungi

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  McLean, Malcolm A ^a   Tirosh, Itay ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ELONGATION; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA STRAND; EUKARYOTE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; PROTOFUNGI;

BASE COMPOSITION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; FUNGI; GENES, FUNGAL; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84855181614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-638     Document Type: Article

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