Codon usage bias from tRNA's point of view: Redundancy, specialization, and efficient decoding for translation optimization

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2279-2286

  Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CODON; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE POOL; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH ACCELERATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANTICODON; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 8744310123     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.2896904     Document Type: Article

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