Minimal genome encoding proteins with constrained amino acid repertoire

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 8444-8451

  Tsoy, Olga ^a,b   Yurieva, Marina ^b,c   Kucharavy, Andrey ^c,d   O'Reilly, Mary ^e   Mushegian, Arcady ^c,f,g  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^e O'Reilly Science Art   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYSTEINE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM;

EID: 84885915478     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt610     Document Type: Article

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