Mutational robustness of 16S ribosomal RNA, shown by experimental horizontal gene transfer in Escherichia coli

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 19220-19225

  Kitahara, Kei ^a   Yasutake, Yoshiaki ^a   Miyazaki, Kentaro ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional plasticity

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID DNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBOSOME; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84869829458     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213609109     Document Type: Article

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