Article
Cost minimization of ribosomal frameshifts.
Journal of theoretical biology - 7 Nov 2007
Seligmann Hervé
Abstract excerpt
Properties of mRNA leading regions that modulate protein synthesis are little known (besides effects of their secondary structure). Here I explore how coding properties of leading regions may account for their disparate efficiencies. Trinucleotides that form off frame stop codons decrease costs of ribosomal slippages during protein synthesis: protein activity (as a proxy of gene expression, and as measured in...
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