Codon Bias as a Means to Fine-Tune Gene Expression

Molecular Cell

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 149-161

  Quax, Tessa E F ^a,b   Claassens, Nico J ^a   Söll, Dieter ^c   van der Oost, John ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC DNA; TRANSFER RNA; CODON;

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CODON; CODON BIAS; CODON USAGE; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE POOL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; ANIMAL; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; OPERON;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; OPERON; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA, TRANSFER; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84937436324     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.05.035     Document Type: Review

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