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Mutational drift prevails over translational efficiency in Frankia nif operons

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Title Mutational drift prevails over translational efficiency in Frankia nif operons
 
Creator Sur, Saubashya
Sen, Arnab
Bothra, Asim K
 
Subject codon usage
Frankia
mutational bias
nitrogen fixation
nif
translational efficiency
ORF
 
Description 321-328
Frankia is a Gram-positive actinomycete, fixing atmospheric nitrogen while making associations with a number of dicotyledonous plants. The most important operon of Frankia is the nif operon. Codon usage bias was investigated in three open reading frames and known genes of this organism from three different strains. Genes and ORFs show high biasness due to mutation pressure. Based on our results we conclude that mutational drift is more relevant over translational efficiency. The nif genes showed fairly high expression levels. Analysis of the result of codon indices and BLAST searches revealed that ORF3 might be a good candidate for expression.
 
Date 2009-02-10T07:38:16Z
2009-02-10T07:38:16Z
2007-07
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0972-5849
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3050
 
Language en_US
 
Relation Int. Cl.⁸ C12N15/10
 
Publisher CSIR
 
Source IJBT Vol.6(3) [July 2007]