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Nature of selective constraints on synonymous codon usage of rice differs in GC-poor and GC-rich genes.
Gene - 1 Oct 2007
Mukhopadhyay Pamela, Basak Surajit, Ghosh Tapash Chandra
Abstract excerpt
Synonymous codon usage and cellular tRNA abundance are thought to be co-evolved in optimizing translational efficiencies in highly expressed genes. Here in this communication by taking the advantage of publicly available gene expression data of rice and Arabidopsis we demonstrated that tRNA gene copy number is not the only driving force favoring translational selection in all highly expressed genes of rice. We...
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