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q-bio.GN2017★ 3 cited
Bacterial protein interaction networks: connectivity is ruled by gene conservation, essentiality and function
Maddalena Dilucca, Giulio Cimini, Andrea Giansanti
Protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks are the backbone of all processes in living cells. In this work we relate conservation, essentiality and functional repertoire of a gene…
q-bio.GN2017★ 23 cited
Essentiality, conservation, evolutionary pressure and codon bias in bacterial genes
Maddalena Dilucca, Giulio Cimini, Andrea Giansanti
Essential genes constitute the core of genes which cannot be mutated too much nor lost along the evolutionary history of a species. Natural selection is expected to be stricter on…