Conserved rates and patterns of transcription errors across bacterial growth states and lifestyles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 3311-3316

  Traverse, Charles C ^a   Ochman, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Base substitutions; RNA polymerase fidelity; Transcription errors

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CARSONELLA RUDDII; ENDOSYMBIONT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SYMBIOSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84962208273     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525329113     Document Type: Article

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