Selection for Reducing Energy Cost of Protein Production Drives the GC Content and Amino Acid Composition Bias in Gene Transfer Agents

ABSTRACT Gene transfer agents (GTAs) are virus-like elements integrated into bacterial genomes, particularly, those of Alphaproteobacteria. The GTAs can be induced under conditions of nutritional stress, incorporate random fragments of bacterial DNA into miniphage particles, lyse the host cells, and...

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Autores principales: Roman Kogay, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin, Olga Zhaxybayeva
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Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/6db22c92840347e8b1cd844467f75198
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