Dynamic changes in translational efficiency are deduced from codon usage of the transcriptome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 10053-10063

  Gingold, Hila ^a   Dahan, Orna ^a   Pilpel, Yitzhak ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CODON USAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STRESS;

ANIMALS; CODON; GENETIC DRIFT; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84869047677     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks772     Document Type: Article

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