Differential bicodon usage in lowly and highly abundant proteins

Degeneracy in the genetic code implies that different codons can encode the same amino acid. Usage preference of synonymous codons has been observed in all domains of life. There is much evidence suggesting that this bias has a major role on protein elongation rate, contributing to differential expr...

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Autor principal: Diambra, Luis Aníbal
Formato: Articulo
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Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/87421
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topic Biología
Co-translational folding
Codon pairs
Synonymous codon usage
Translational rate
spellingShingle Biología
Co-translational folding
Codon pairs
Synonymous codon usage
Translational rate
Diambra, Luis Aníbal
Differential bicodon usage in lowly and highly abundant proteins
topic_facet Biología
Co-translational folding
Codon pairs
Synonymous codon usage
Translational rate
description Degeneracy in the genetic code implies that different codons can encode the same amino acid. Usage preference of synonymous codons has been observed in all domains of life. There is much evidence suggesting that this bias has a major role on protein elongation rate, contributing to differential expression and to co-translational folding. In addition to codon usage bias, other preference variations have been observed such as codon pairs. In this paper, I report that codon pairs have significant different frequency usage for coding either lowly or highly abundant proteins. These usage preferences cannot be explained by the frequency usage of the single codons. The statistical analysis of coding sequences of nine organisms reveals that in many cases bicodon preferences are shared between related organisms. Furthermore, it is observed that misfolding in the drug-transport protein, encoded by MDR1 gene, is better explained by a big change in the pause propensity due to the synonymous bicodon variant, rather than by a relatively small change in codon usage. These findings suggest that codon pair usage can be a more powerful framework to understand translation elongation rate, protein folding efficiency, and to improve protocols to optimize heterologous gene expression.
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author Diambra, Luis Aníbal
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title Differential bicodon usage in lowly and highly abundant proteins
title_short Differential bicodon usage in lowly and highly abundant proteins
title_full Differential bicodon usage in lowly and highly abundant proteins
title_fullStr Differential bicodon usage in lowly and highly abundant proteins
title_full_unstemmed Differential bicodon usage in lowly and highly abundant proteins
title_sort differential bicodon usage in lowly and highly abundant proteins
publishDate 2017
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/87421
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