Quality over quantity: Optimizing co-translational protein folding with non-'optimal' synonymous codons

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages 102-110

  Jacobson, Giselle N ^a   Clark, Patricia L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; MESSENGER RNA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; TRANSFER RNA; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CODON USAGE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN REFOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; SYNONYMOUS CODON SUBSTITUTION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; CHEMISTRY; CODON; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

CODON; HUMANS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 84974736018     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2016.06.002     Document Type: Review

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