Life without tRNAArg-adenosine deaminase TadA: Evolutionary consequences of decoding the four CGN codons as arginine in Mycoplasmas and other Mollicutes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 6531-6543

  Yokobori, Shin Ichi ^a   Kitamura, Aya ^b   Grosjean, Henri ^c   Bessho, Yoshitaka ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b RIKEN SPring 8 Center   (Japan)

^c CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ARGININE TRANSFER RNA; ADENOSINE; ARGININE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOSS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA CAPRICOLUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TADA GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CODON; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOPLASMA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGININE; CODON; DEAMINATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA CAPRICOLUM; RNA, TRANSFER, ARG; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TENERICUTES;

EID: 84880536588     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt356     Document Type: Article

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