What is a codon chart and how do you read it? A codon chart is a chart of all the codons and the amino acids they stand for. There are several versions of codon charts, but each one requires you to find the first, second and third letter of the codon in question and then uses an...
Complex RNA structures in 5′ UTRs, such as RNA G-quadruplexes, may serve as steric blocks to RNA structure unwinding by the scanning ribosome, eukaryotic initiation factor 4A (eIF4A) and other helicases. Internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs) recruit ribosomes to 5′ UTRs in a cap-indepen...
We also find that emergence of asORFs in reading frame 1 can be more likely than emergence of non-antisense (intergenic) ORFs. Results We developed a mathematical model to estimate the probabilities of ORF emergence and loss, in DNA regions antisense to existing protein coding ORFs. This model...
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The 20 amino acids that make up the building blocks of proteins in living cells are translated from DNA according to a set of instructions called the genetic code. Codons, which are three-letter strands of nucleotides, are the building blocks of the genetic code. Every codon denotes a ...
Single-nucleotide-resolution chemical RNA structure probing is emerging to explore the folding state of the transcriptome in living cells; the resulting models for how 5′ UTR structures impact translation should be validated by compensatory mutagenesis. ...
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The phenylalanine-specific tRNA leaves the P-site and goes off to find another phenylalanine. The ribosome shifts down one codon so that the stop sequence is now in the A-site. Upon encountering the stop sequence, the ribosome detaches from the mRNA and splits into its two parts. The thre...
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Several parameters have been considered for the codon optimization, which affects the translation efficiency, protein folding, and mRNA abundance. One example is that the GC content in the sequence. Although GC-rich sequences may be problematic for the secondary structure formation of mRNA, the tran...