Roles for Synonymous Codon Usage in Protein Biogenesis

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 44, Issue , 2015, Pages 143-166

  Chaney, Julie L ^a   Clark, Patricia L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotranslational folding; Protein aggregation; Protein degradation; Ribosome; Translation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; TRANSFER RNA; CODON;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CODON; CODON USAGE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BIOGENESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS GENE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CODON; HUMANS; MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84937440655     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-060414-034333     Document Type: Article

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