Nature of selective constraints on synonymous codon usage of rice differs in GC-poor and GC-rich genes

Gene

Volumn 400, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 71-81

  Mukhopadhyay, Pamela ^a   Basak, Surajit ^a   Ghosh, Tapash Chandra ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Codon usage; mRNA folding stability; Translational efficiencies; tRNA abundance

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MUTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 34548132386     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.05.027     Document Type: Article

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