Ribosomes slide on lysine-encoding homopolymeric A stretches

Protein output from synonymous codons is thought to be equivalent if appropriate tRNAs are sufficiently abundant. Here we show that mRNAs encoding iterated lysine codons, AAA or AAG, differentially impact protein synthesis: insertion of iterated AAA codons into an ORF diminishes protein expression m...

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Main Authors: Kristin S Koutmou, Anthony P Schuller, Julie L Brunelle, Aditya Radhakrishnan, Sergej Djuranovic, Rachel Green
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2015-02-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/05534