Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Activity of Histology, Embryology and Applied Biology, University of Bologna, via Belmeloro 8, 40126 Bologna (BO), Italy.
Genomics. 2013 May;101(5):282-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2013.02.009. Epub 2013 Mar 1.
Codon bias is the phenomenon in which distinct synonymous codons are used with different frequencies. We define here the "codonome value" as the total number of codons present across all the expressed mRNAs in a given biological condition. We have developed the "CODONOME" software, which calculates the codon bias and, following integration with a gene expression profile, estimates the actual frequency of each codon at the transcriptome level (codonome bias) of a given tissue. Systematic analysis across different human tissues and multiple species shows a surprisingly tight correlation between the codon bias and the codonome bias. An aneuploidy and cancer condition such as that of Down Syndrome-related acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (DS-AMKL), does not appear to alter this relationship. The law of correlation between codon bias and codonome emerges as a property of the distribution and range of the number, sequence and expression level of the genes in a genome.
密码子偏爱是指不同同义密码子使用频率不同的现象。在这里,我们将“密码子组值”定义为给定生物条件下所有表达的 mRNA 中存在的密码子总数。我们开发了“CODONOME”软件,该软件可以计算密码子偏爱,并在与基因表达谱集成后,估计给定组织中转录组水平(密码子组偏爱)上每个密码子的实际频率。对不同人类组织和多种物种的系统分析表明,密码子偏爱与密码子组偏爱之间存在惊人的紧密相关性。非整倍体和癌症情况,如唐氏综合征相关的急性巨核细胞白血病(DS-AMKL),似乎并没有改变这种关系。密码子偏爱和密码子组之间的相关性法则似乎是基因组中基因的数量、序列和表达水平的分布和范围的属性。