Random sequences rapidly evolve into de novo promoters

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Yona, Avihu H ^a,b   Alm, Eric J ^b   Gore, Jeff ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAC FACTOR; GLYCEROL;

BIOINFORMATICS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; THRESHOLD;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; WILD TYPE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PROTEIN MOTIF;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; GLYCEROL; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85045767938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04026-w     Document Type: Article

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