The 1.2-megabase genome sequence of Mimivirus

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5700, 2004, Pages 1344-1350

  Raoult, Didier ^a   Audic, Stéphane ^b   Robert, Catherine ^a   Abergel, Chantal ^b   Renesto, Patricia ^a   Ogata, Hiroyuki ^b   La Scola, Bernard ^a   Suzan, Marie ^a   Claverie, Jean Michel ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CNRS Aix Marseille University   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PROTEINS; RNA; VIRUSES;

GENES ENCODING; GENOME SEQUENCES; MIMIVIRUS;

GENES;

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GENE PRODUCT; INITIATION FACTOR 1; INTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

GENOME; VIRUS;

AMOEBA; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA VIRUS; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MIMIVIRUS; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA REPAIR; DNA TOPOISOMERASES; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, VIRAL; ENZYMES; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; INTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEOME; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; DNA VIRUSES; EUKARYOTA; MIMIVIRUS; MYCOPLASMA; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 8844266097     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101485     Document Type: Article

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