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Most synonymous allelic variants in HIV tat are not silent.
Genomics - 1 May 2023
Giacoletto Christopher J, Benjamin Ronald, Deng Hong-Wen, Rotter Jerome I, Schiller Martin R
Abstract excerpt
The genetic code has degenerate codons that produce no change in the translated protein sequence and are generally thought to be silent. However, some synonymous variants are clearly not silent. Herein, we questioned the frequency of non-silent synonymous variants. We tested how random synonymous variants in the HIV Tat transcription factor effect transcription of an LTR-GFP reporter. Our model system has the...
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