Fitness landscape transformation through a single Amino acid change in the rho terminator

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Freddolino, Peter L ^a   Goodarzi, Hani ^a,b   Tavazoie, Saeed ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHO FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC EPISTASIS; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHO GENE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC FITNESS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; RHO FACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84863654995     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002744     Document Type: Article

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