Alanine is the main second amino acid in vertebrate proteins and its coding entails increased use of the rare codon GCG

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 373, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 589-592

  Sánchez, Joaquín ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

+4G site in Kozak consensus; 18S RNA base pairing; Codon overrepresentation; Enhancer sequence CCGGCGG; Kozak sequence; mRNA rRNA base pairing; Predominant second amino acid; Translation initiation enhancer

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; RNA 18S;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CODING; CODON; CODON USAGE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ENHANCER REGION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VERTEBRATE;

ALANINE; ANIMALS; CODON; HUMANS; MICE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RATS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 47649093356     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.06.076     Document Type: Article

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