Altered tRNA characteristics and 3′ maturation in bacterial symbionts with reduced genomes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 7870-7884

  Hansen, Allison K ^a   Moran, Nancy A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOSS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; RNA GENE; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; THERMOSTABILITY;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BUCHNERA; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA 3' END PROCESSING; RNA EDITING; RNA, TRANSFER; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA (PROTEOBACTERIA); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84870507657     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks503     Document Type: Article

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