Uncovering major genomic features of essential genes in Bacteria and a methanogenic Archaea

FEBS Journal

Volumn 282, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 3395-3411

  Grazziotin, Ana Laura ^a,b   Vidal, Newton M ^a,b   Venancio, Thiago M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO NORTE FLUMINENSE DARCY RIBEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

essential genes; genome evolution; genome organization; operons; prokaryotes; transposon mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CELL PROLIFERATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; FTSZ GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METHANOCOCCUS MARIPALUDIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; ARCHAEON; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ARCHAEA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 84940676086     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.13350     Document Type: Article

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