Context-dependent codon bias and messenger RNA longevity in the yeast transcriptome

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1403-1411

  Carlini, David B ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context dependent codon bias; Gene expression; mRNA half life; mRNA stability; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMINO ACID; DINUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; THYMINE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONTEXT DEPENDENT CODON BIAS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA DEGRADATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION; YEAST;

CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEOME; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 19544372278     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi135     Document Type: Article

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