Causas y efectos del sesgo del codón N-terminal en los genes bacterianos

Daniel B Goodman1, George M Church, Sriram Kosuri

  • 1Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 28, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

El uso de codones raros al comienzo de los genes aumenta significativamente la producción de proteínas. Este efecto se debe a la reducción de la estructura del ARN, no a la rareza del codón en sí, lo que ofrece una nueva forma de optimizar la expresión génica.

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