Synonymous codons, ribosome speed, and eukaryotic gene expression regulation

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 4195-4206

  Tarrant, Daniel ^a   Von Der Haar, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Evolution; Gene regulation; Genetic code; Ribosome; Translational control; tRNA

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLATION; BASE PAIRING; CODON USAGE; EUKARYOTE; GENE AND NUCLEIC ACID PARAMETERS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SPEED; RNA ABUNDANCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST; CHEMISTRY; CODON; FUNGUS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

EUKARYOTA;

CODON; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84922008401     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-014-1684-2     Document Type: Review

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