Bulmer M
Department of Statistics, Oxford, UK.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1990 May 25;18(10):2869-73. doi: 10.1093/nar/18.10.2869.
The effect of neighbouring bases on the usage of synonymous codons in genes with low codon usage bias in yeast and E. coli is examined. The codon adaptation index is employed to identify a group of genes in each organism with low codon usage bias, which are likely to be weakly expressed. A similar pattern is found in complementary sequences with respect to synonymous usage of A vs G or of U vs C. It is suggested that this may reflect an effect of context on mutation rates in weakly expressed genes.
研究了相邻碱基对酵母和大肠杆菌中密码子使用偏好较低的基因中同义密码子使用情况的影响。密码子适应指数用于在每个生物体中识别一组密码子使用偏好较低的基因,这些基因可能是低表达的。在关于A与G或U与C的同义使用的互补序列中发现了类似的模式。有人认为,这可能反映了上下文对低表达基因中突变率的影响。