Compositional Constraints in the Extremely GC-poor Genome of Plasmodium falciparum


Autoria(s): Musto,Héctor; Cacciò,Simone; Rodríguez-Maseda,Helena; Bernardi,Giorgio
Data(s)

01/11/1997

Resumo

We have analyzed the compositional properties of coding (protein encoding) and non-coding sequences of Plasmodium falciparum, a unicellular parasite characterized by an extremely AT-rich genome. GC% levels, base and dinucleotide frequencies were studied. We found that among the various factors that contribute to the properties of the sequences analyzed, the most relevant are the compositional constraints which operate on the whole genome

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http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761997000600020

Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde

Fonte

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz v.92 n.6 1997

Palavras-Chave #Plasmodium falciparum #GC levels #dinucleotides #genome organization
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journal article