Article
Role of GC-biased mutation pressure on synonymous codon choice in Micrococcus luteus, a bacterium with a high genomic GC-content.
Nucleic acids research - 25 Mar 1990
Ohama T, Muto A, Osawa S
Abstract excerpt
The GC (G + C, or G or C)-contents of codon silent positions in all two-codon sets and three codons AUY/A (IIe), and in most of the family boxes of Micrococcus luteus (genomic GC-content: 74%) are 95% to 100% in both the highly and weakly expressed genes. In some family boxes, there is a decrease in NNC codons and an increase in NNG codons from the highly expressed to weakly expressed genes without apparent...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Codon
- Cytosine
- Genes, Bacterial
- Guanine
- Micrococcus
- Mutation
- RNA, Messenger