Correlated Occurrence and Bypass of Frame-Shifting Insertion-Deletions (InDels) to Give Functional Proteins

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Rockah Shmuel, Liat ^a   Tóth Petróczy, Ágnes ^a   Sela, Asaf ^a   Wurtzel, Omri ^a   Sorek, Rotem ^a   Tawfik, Dan S ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; INDEL MUTATION; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84887306726     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003882     Document Type: Article

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