RNA Structural Determinants of Optimal Codons Revealed by MAGE-Seq

Cell Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 563-571.e6

  Kelsic, Eric D ^a   Chung, Hattie ^a   Cohen, Niv ^b   Park, Jimin ^c   Wang, Harris H ^c   Kishony, Roy ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

codon; codon optimization; codon usage; computational biology; molecular biology; RNA structure; synthetic biology; systems biology

Indexed keywords

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; START CODON; STOP CODON;

EID: 85006855427     PISSN: 24054712     EISSN: 24054720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2016.11.004     Document Type: Article

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