Fitness Costs of Synonymous Mutations in the rpsT Gene Can Be Compensated by Restoring mRNA Base Pairing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Lind, Peter A ^a,b   Andersson, Dan I ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN S20; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; RPST GENE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BASE PAIRING; CODON; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 84877744494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063373     Document Type: Article

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