Conservation of mRNA secondary structures may filter out mutations in Escherichia coli evolution

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 7854-7860

  Chursov, Andrey ^a   Frishman, Dmitrij ^a,b   Shneider, Alexander ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Cure Lab Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MUTATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84886809008     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt507     Document Type: Article

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