Reduced synonymous substitution rate at the start of enterobacterial genes
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Reduced synonymous substitution rate at the start of enterobacterial genes.
Synonymous codon usage is less biased at the start of Escherichia coli genes than elsewhere. The rate of synonymous substitution between E.coli and Salmonella typhimurium is substantially reduced near the start of the gene, which suggests the presence of an additional selection pressure which competes with the selection for codons which are most rapidly translated. Possible competing sources of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0305-1048,1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.19.4599