Codon Usage Influences the Local Rate of Translation Elongation to Regulate Co-translational Protein Folding

Molecular Cell

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 744-754

  Yu, Chien Hung ^a   Dang, Yunkun ^a   Zhou, Zhipeng ^a   Wu, Cheng ^b   Zhao, Fangzhou ^a   Sachs, Matthew S ^b   Liu, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CODON USAGE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CODON; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; RIBOSOME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE;

CODON; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CODON; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84940891331     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.07.018     Document Type: Article

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