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Directional mutational pressure affects the amino acid composition and hydrophobicity of proteins in bacteria.
Genetica - 1 Jan 1998
Gu X, Hewett-Emmett D, Li W H
Abstract excerpt
The relationship between change in genomic GC content and protein evolution in bacteria was studied by simple correlational analysis (at the genus level) and by Felsenstein's (1985) independent contrast test. We first used the dnaA gene in bacteria as an example to show (1) that the amino acid composition of a protein can be dramatically affected by mutational pressure (the genomic GC content), (2) that...
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