Brachypodium distachyon has been proposed as a new model for the temperate grass because it is related to the major cereal grain species (such as wheat, barley, oat, maize, rice, and sorghum) and many forage and turf species. In this study, a multivariate statistical analysis was performed to investigate the characteristics of codon bias and the main factors affecting synonymous codon usage in Brachypodium. We found that low- and high-GC content genes with different codon usage occur frequently in the genome.

Meiotic double-strand breaks occur at relatively high frequencies in some genomic regions (hotspots) and relatively low frequencies in others (coldspots). Hotspots and coldspots are receiving increasing attention in research into the mechanism of meiotic recombination. However, predicting hotspots and coldspots from DNA sequence information is still a challenging task. We present a novel method for classification of hot and cold ORFs located in hotspots and coldspots respectively in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, using support vector machine (SVM), which relies on codon composition differences. This method has achieved a high classification accuracy of 85.0%. Since codon composition is a fusion of codon usage bias and amino acid composition signals, the ability of these two kinds of sequence attributes to discriminate hot ORFs from cold ORFs was also investigated separately. Our results indicate that neither codon usage bias nor amino acid composition taken separately performed as well as codon composition.

Bacillus anthracis genome organization in light of whole transcriptome sequencing Emerging knowledge of whole prokaryotic transcriptomes could validate a number of theoretical concepts introduced in the early days of genomics. What are the rules connecting gene expression levels with sequence determinants such as quantitative scores of promoters and terminators? Are translation efficiency measures, e.g. codon adaptation index and RBS score related to gene expression? We used the whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing of a bacterial pathogen Bacillus anthracis to assess correlation of gene expression level with promoter, terminator and RBS scores, codon adaptation index, as well as with a new measure of gene translational efficiency, average translation speed. We compared computational predictions of operon topologies with the transcript borders inferred from RNA-Seq reads. Transcriptome mapping may also improve existing gene annotation. Upon assessment of accuracy of current annotation of protein-coding

Our understanding of translation underpins our capacity to engineer living systems. The canonical start codon (AUG) and a few near-cognates (GUG, UUG) are considered as the start codons for translation initiation in Escherichia coli. Translation is typically not thought to initiate from the 61 remaining codons. Here, we quantified translation initiation of green fluorescent protein and nanoluciferase in E. coli from all 64 triplet codons and across a range of DNA copy number. We detected initiation of protein synthesis above measurement background for 47 codons. Translation from non-canonical start codons ranged from 0.007 to 3% relative to translation from AUG. Translation from 17 non-AUG codons exceeded the highest reported rates of non-cognate codon recognition. Translation initiation from non-canonical start codons may contribute to the synthesis of peptides in both natural and synthetic biological systems. ...

We conducted this study to assess whether KRAS codon 12-mutated tumors represent a more aggressive subtype as compared with either KRAS codon 13-mutated tumors or KRAS wild-type tumors, within a group of BRAF wild-type tumors (i.e., controlling for BRAF mutation status). We showed that KRAS codon 12 mutations, but not codon 13 mutations, were associated with significantly higher mortality compared with KRAS wild-type/BRAF wild-type cases. In particular, c.35G,T (p.G12V) mutation was associated with the highest colorectal cancer-specific mortality (multivariate HR, 2.00; 95% CI, 1.38-2.90, P = 0.0003). Our data are consistent with previous laboratory studies (24, 25), suggesting that the presence of a mutation in KRAS codon 12 confers substantially greater oncogenic potential as compared with codon 13 mutation. Our data are also consistent with a recent study that showed that KRAS codon 12 mutations, but not codon 13 mutations, conferred resistance to cetuximab in advanced colorectal cancer ...

The codon usage in the mitochondrial genome of R. compacta shows a strong preference of synonymous codons ending with Thymine or Guanine (Figure 1 and Table 2), which is in contrast to most vertebrate mtDNAs [17]. Moreover, the nucleotide composition of the tRNA genes is adapted to the increased GT-content (Table 1), but most anticodons of the tRNA genes still show the typical sequence of other metazoan genomes [19, 20] having anticodons GNN for NNY codons, UNN for NNR codons and also UNN for four-fold degenerate codon families (Table 2). Therefore, the reverse complements of the anticodon sequences show usually the low frequent codons (Table 2) rejecting an adaptation of the anticodon sequences to most frequent codons (see [17]). In contrast, this strongly supports that an effective translation system is based on anticodon sequences of tRNA genes with highest versatility to all recognized codons independent of their frequency [15, 16, 18].. Three deviations from the anticodon system with such ...

The relationship between the overall G+C content of the genome (GC) and the GC content at the third codon positions (GC3) of genes, which we refer to as a GC3-plot, was examined using 15 currently available complete genome sequences. A remarkably linear relationship was found between these two quantities, confirming previous observations of a strong positive correlation in the GC3-plot.. In order to conduct a more detailed analysis of the GC3-plot, we examined the GC3 content by separating orthologous codons into three categories: synonymously different codons (namely identical amino acids, IA), different amino acids (DA), and identical codons (IC), for a pairwise comparison of two closely related species. When we took pairwise species comparisons between Mycoplasma genitalium (Mg) and Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mp) and between Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mt) and Mycobacterium leprae (Ml) as examples, we found that for Mp and Ml, the GC3 for IA deviated the most from the linear expectation in the ...

Mutations at codon 532 from GCG (Ala) to GCA (Ala) in two isolates and at codon 508 from ACC (Thr) to AGC (Ser) and deletion at codon 517 alone of CAG (Gln) have not been reported previously. New alleles reported in this study include mutations from AGC (Ser) to AGG (Arg) at codon 512, GAC (Asp) to AAA (Lys) at codon 516, and CTG (Leu) to CTT (Leu) at codon 533. New mutations outside the RRDR were also seen in two isolates (GGG to GAG at codon 534 and CCC to CAC at codon 535). Previous workers have also reported mutations outside the RRDR (GAG to GCG at codon 504 [16], GAG to GAT at codon 541 [14], TCG to GCG at codon 553 [14], and ATC to TTC at codon 572 [24]).. In contrast to the results obtained by Taniguchi et al. (19), our results showed high MICs for isolates with mutations at codon 516 or codon 533. In fact, a high MIC (,128 mg/liter) was demonstrated even for an isolate with a silent mutation at codon 532.. Forty-three Rifr isolates in the present study either showed a substitution(s) or ...

In 2013 Rota-Stabelli et al. used the signal in the 62 protein-coding genes assembled by Regier et al. in 2010 to improve the knowledge of the internal relationship in the Pancrustacea group. This data set infers a highly supported nucleotide tree that is substantially different from the corresponding, but poorly supported, amino acid one. The discrepancy between the nucleotide-based and the amino acids-based trees is caused by substitutions within synonymous codon families (especially those of serine-TCN and AGY): different arthropod lineages are differentially biased in their usage of serine, arginine, and leucine synonymous codons, and the serine bias is correlated with the topology derived from the nucleotides, but not the amino acids. The authors suggest that a parallel, partially compositionally driven, synonymous codon-usage bias affects the nucleotide topology. As substitutions between serine codon families can proceed through threonine or cysteine intermediates, amino acid data sets ...

The precise interplay between the mRNA codon and the tRNA anticodon is crucial for ensuring efficient and accurate translation by the ribosome. The insertion of RNA nucleobase derivatives in the mRNA allowed us to modulate the stability of the codon-anticodon interaction in the decoding site of bacterial and eukaryotic ribosomes, allowing an in-depth analysis of codon recognition. In addition to a quantitative analysis of the protein products that are formed in dependence of the modified codons, the interpretation of these RNA nucleobase derivatives by the ribosomal decoding site was also determined. For each modification, the translated peptides from the bacterial and eukaryotic systems were purified and analyzed by mass spectrometry.

Nonsense Codon: An amino acid-specifying codon that has been converted to a stop codon (CODON, TERMINATOR) by mutation. Its occurance is abnormal causing premature termination of protein translation and results in production of truncated and non-functional proteins. A nonsense mutation is one that converts an amino acid-specific codon to a stop codon.

Theres another aspect of the furin cleavage site that narrows the path for a natural emergence origin even further.. As everyone knows (or may at least recall from high school), the genetic code uses three units of DNA to specify each amino acid unit of a protein chain. When read in groups of 3, the 4 different kinds of DNA unit can specify 4 x 4 x 4 or 64 different triplets, or codons as they are called. Since there are only 20 kinds of amino acid, there are more than enough codons to go around, allowing some amino acids to be specified by more than one codon. The amino acid arginine, for instance, can be designated by any of the six codons CGU, CGC, CGA, CGG, AGA or AGG, where A, U, G and C stand for the four different kinds of unit in RNA.. Heres where it gets interesting. Different organisms have different codon preferences. Human cells like to designate arginine with the codons CGT, CGC or CGG. But CGG is coronaviruss least popular codon for arginine. Keep that in mind when looking at ...

Generally, if /transl_table qualifier is appropriately described with a number of the genetic code, the nucleotide sequence is automatically translated to amino acid sequence according to the genetic code.. In exceptional cases of specific codons (selenocysteine etc.) that is not followed the genetic codes, describe /transl_except qualifier, appropriately.. In cases of RNA editing，ribosomal frameshift，mitochondrial TAA stop codon, see Example of submission and describe with /exception and /translation, /ribosomal_slippage, /transl_except, respectively.. In case of rare initiation of translation, staring with an amino acid other than methionine, describe the location of CDS feature with starting from ,, operatively indicating 5end not complete. And describe brief explanation about the translation mechanism in /note qualifier.. ...

Empirical codon models (ECMs) estimated from a large number of globular protein families outperformed mechanistic codon models in their description of the general process of protein evolution. Among other factors, ECMs implicitly model the influence of amino acid properties and multiple nucleotide substitutions (MNS). However, the estimation of ECMs requires large quantities of data, and until recently, only few suitable data sets were available. Here, we take advantage of several new Drosophila species genomes to estimate codon models from genome-wide data. The availability of large numbers of genomes over varying phylogenetic depths in the Drosophila genus allows us to explore various divergence levels. In consequence, we can use these data to determine the appropriate level of divergence for the estimation of ECMs, avoiding overestimation of MNS rates caused by saturation. To account for variation in evolutionary rates along the genome, we develop new empirical codon hidden Markov models ...

The genetic code uses 64 nucleotide triplets (codons) to encode 20 amino acids and stop. Each amino acid is encoded by on average 3 codons that are read during translation by tRNAs charged with the cognate amino acid. The degeneracy of the genetic code enables many alternative nucleotide sequences to encode the same protein. The frequencies with which different codons are used by different organisms and different types of genes vary significantly[11] and are correlated to the concentration of the corresponding tRNA population in the cell[12]. Rare codons are not only strongly associated with low levels of protein expression due to ribosome stalling and abortive translation[13], but also implicated in frameshift and amino acid misincorporation[14, 15]. Codon usage has been identified as the single most important factor in prokaryotic gene expression[16].. The simplest way to design a DNA sequence from an amino acid sequence is to assign the most abundant codon to all instances of that amino acid ...

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The effect of the 3 codon context on the efficiency of nonsense suppression in mammalian tissue culture cells has been tested. Measurements were made following the transfection of cells with a pRSVgal reporter vector that contained the classical Escherichia coli lacZ UAG allele YA559. The position of this mutation was mapped by virtue of its fortuitous creation of a CTAG MaeI restriction enzyme site. Determination of the local DNA sequence revealed a C--,T mutation at codon 600 of the lacZ gene: CAG--,TAG. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to create a series of vectors in which the base 3 to the nonsense codon was either A, C, G, or U. Suppression of the amber-containing reporter was achieved by cotransfection with genes for human tRNA(Ser) or tRNA(Gln) UAG nonsense suppressors and by growth in the translational error-promoting aminoglycoside drug G418. Nonsense suppression was studied in the human cell lines 293 and MRC5V1 and the simian line COS-7. Overall, the rank order for the effect of ...

The Drosophila kelch gene produces a single transcript with a UGA stop codon separating two open reading frames (ORF1 and ORF2). From the transcript, 76 kDa ORF1 and 160 kDa full-length (ORF1 + ORF2) proteins are made. The expression of these two proteins is regulated in a tissue-specific manner causing the ratio of full-length to ORF1 protein to vary in different tissues. The only detected defect for kelch mutants is female sterility, and kelch protein is localized to the ovarian ring canals. kelch mutant ring canals are disorganized and have partly occluded lumens, causing a failure to transport cytoplasm. ORF1 and full-length kelch proteins co-sediment with ring canals suggesting that both proteins are found in the ring canals. Transgenetic analysis reveals that ORF1 kelch protein is sufficient to rescue ring canal morphology and fertility. In addition, we have mutated the UGA stop codon to a UAA stop codon and to three sense codons that allow constitutive readthrough. Analysis of these ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Association of codon 72 polymorphism of p53 with lower prostate cancer risk. AU - Henner, Wm David. AU - Evans, Adam J.. AU - Hough, Kristi M.. AU - Harris, Emily L.. AU - Lowe, Bruce A.. AU - Beer, Tomasz (Tom). PY - 2001. Y1 - 2001. N2 - BACKGROUND. A common germline polymorphism of p53 produces a protein with an Arg to Pro change at codon 72. This Pro variant has altered biochemical properties suggesting altered cancer susceptibility. METHODS. A case control study with 115 men with prostate cancer and 181 community control male subjects was conducted. Demographics, family history of cancer, and blood were obtained. Codon 72 genotypes were determined using PCR. RESULTS. The Pro/Pro genotype was associated with a markedly lower risk of prostate cancer (OR = 0.23, CI = 0.07-0.79, P = 0.012). Similar reduction in risk was observed when the analysis was limited to Caucasian subjects (86% of total). Reduction in risk remained significant in a logistic regression model after ...

There are only 20 amino acids that are coded for by approximately 50 different tRNA and there are 61 codons that specify an amino acid. As it turns out, some tRNAs can bind at more than one codon. Crick called this ability wobble. If inosine is in the first position in the anticodon of the tRNA, it can bind to uracil, adenosine, or cytosine in the third position of the codon. Thus this one tRNA recognizes three different codons (figures 15.12 and 15.13). Remember that the codon and anti-codon are anti-parellel. The first position of the codon is at the 5 end of the codon and binds to the third position (3end) of the anti-codon ...

Blue Heron offers codon optimization on all gene synthesis orders; our proprietary algorithm finds the optimal sequence for expression of your gene.

Bacterial mRNAs are translated by closely spaced ribosomes and degraded from the 5-end, with half-lives of around 2 min at 37 °C in most cases. Ribosome-free or naked mRNA is known to be readily degraded, but the initial event that inactivates the mRNA functionally has not been fully described. Here, we characterize a determinant of the functional stability of an mRNA, which is located in the early coding region. Using literature values for the mRNA half-lives of variant lacZ mRNAs in Escherichia coli, we modeled how the ribosome spacing is affected by the translation rate of the individual codons. When comparing the ribosome spacing at various segments of the mRNA to its functional half-life, we found a clear correlation between the functional mRNA half-life and the ribosome spacing in the mRNA region approximately between codon 20 and codon 45. From this finding, we predicted that inserts of slowly translated codons before codon 20 or after codon 45 should shorten or prolong, respectively, ...

A discovery by University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers expands understanding of the genetic code, and may help revise a tenet of this universal language of life. In cells, the genetic code essentially provides instructions for creating proteins, the basic structural molecules of life. The code includes a series of unique three-letter code words, called codons. These genetic passwords dictate insertion of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. While codons may change to code for different amino acids in different organisms, a long-held precept of the genetic code is that one codon provides the password only for one amino acid in an organism. Not always, UNL scientists discovered. We showed that one codon may code for two amino acids, even within the same gene. Thats really unexpected, said Vadim Gladyshev, the biochemistry professor whose team made the discovery. Gladyshev; Anton Turanov, a graduate student at the time of this research; Alexey Lobanov, senior research associate; ...

As you can see, mutations which affect STOP codons are very important as they drastically change the protein sequence. This usually disrupts the protein function and causes diseases or inviable embryos. Most of these are removed from populations long-term by natural selection. However, it can rarely lead to entirely new proteins beneficial to the organism and evolutionary changes. This is more likely with duplicated genes where one can change while the other retains the original function. As such, mutations involving STOP codons are among the most biologically important. Another important case is splice functions. Point mutations and frameshifts can also affect intron-exon boundaries, resulting in new splice variants, skipped exons, and reading further into introns (which may contain splice junctions or STOP codons).. ...

The genetics of a marine protozoan may overturn one of the long-held tenets of protein synthesis. According to conventional wisdom, the genetic code is unambiguous: each DNA triplet, or codon, corresponds to a single amino acid. But a linkurl:study;http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5911/25 in this weeks __Science__ reports that in the wee waterborn creature __Euplotes crassus__, a single codon can code for two different amino acids, even within the same gene. This two-pronged

Results Compared with a healthy control group, odds ratio (OR) analysis revealed an inverse relationship for the proline allele at codon 10 or 25 with pulmonary fibrosis (higher risk) and lung cancer (lower risk). The proline allele at codon 10 or 25 is significantly associated with a higher risk for fibrotic lung diseases (ORcrude, 1.46; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.01-2.11; P = 0.045 and ORadjusted, 1.76; 95% CI, 1.14-2.72; P = 0.011, respectively, for codon 10; OR, 2.13; 95% CI, 1.33-3.99; P = 0.019 and ORadjusted, 2.27; 95% CI, 1.14-4.52; P = 0.02, respectively, for codon 25) when compared with patients with lung cancer. A significant association for the proline allele is also revealed when comparing patients with asbestosis (ORcrude, 3.01; 95% CI, 1.44-6.29; P = 0.003 and ORadjusted, 3.72; 95% CI, 1.56-8.85; P = 0.011) with patients with asbestos-induced lung cancer. ...

This plugin will analyse the codon usage for individual loci and overall for an isolate. Only loci that have a corresponding database containing sequences, or with sequences tagged, can be included. It is important to note that correct identification of codons can only be achieved for loci for which the correct ORF has been set (if they are not in reading frame 1). Partial sequnces from the sequence bin will not be analysed. Please check the loci that you would like to include. Output is limited to 500 records.. ...

Decoding of the Ile AUA codon in prokaryotes. A) Post-transcriptional modification of C34 with either lysine or agmatine switches the amino acid and codon speci

Nonsynonymous mutations change the protein sequences and are frequently subjected to natural selection. The same goes for nonsense mutations that introduce pre-mature stop codons into CDSs (coding sequences). Synonymous mutations, however, are intuitively thought to be functionally silent and evolutionarily neutral. Now researchers know that the optimized synonymous codon usage is advantageous in the speedy mRNA translation process. With the advent of NGS technique, the explosion of NGS data generated from the tumor tissues help researchers identify driver mutations in cancer-related genes, but relatively less attention is paid to the SNP data in healthy human populations when studying cancer. Here, we analyzed the publically available human SNPs. We classified these SNPs according to their functional and evolutionary categories. By simply dividing the human genes into cancer-related genes and other genes, we compared the features of nonsynonymous, synonymous and nonsense mutations in these two gene

The neutral theory of molecular evolution has been instrumental in organizing our thinking about the nature of evolutionary forces shaping variation at the DNA level. More importantly, it has provided empiricists with a strong set of testable predictions and hence, a useful null hypothesis against which to test for the presence of selection. Evidence indicates that the neutral theory cannot explain key features of protein evolution nor patterns of biased codon usage in certain species. Whereas we now have a reasonable model of selection acting on synonymous changes in Drosophila, protein evolution remains poorly understood. Despite limitations in the applicability of the neutral theory, it is likely to remain an integral part of the quest to understand molecular evolution. ...

This paper presents a strategy for expressing a mouse protein (c-Fos) in E. coli. Potentially, this strategy can be applicable to other mammalian genes. c-Fos protein is part of a dimer that makes up activator protein (AP-1) and binds to the TPA response element (TRE). Unaltered mouse c-Fos DNA (CAI = 0.239) had undetectable expression in E. coli, presumably due to the presence of multiple rare Arg codons. Two approaches were used to optimize the codon usage of c-Fos for high levels of expression in E. coli. 1) Five Arg codons (at codon position 140, 142,143,144 and 146) were optimized therefore resulting in the M1 gene (CAI = 0.258); 2) then five additional Arg codons (at codon position 119,155,157,158 and 159) were optimized (M2 gene, CAI = 0.278) using oligodeoxynucleotide mutagenesis. The optimized gene was cloned into pTH6 vector and induced with IPTG for protein expression. The optimization in M1 gene did not improve the protein expression significantly. However, optimization in M2 ...

During translation, ribosomes convert a sequence of mRNA (messenger RNA) to an amino acid sequence. Each 3-base-pair-long segment of mRNA is a codon which corresponds to one amino acid or stop signal.[9] Amino acids can have multiple codons that correspond to them. Ribosomes do not directly attach amino acids to mRNA codons. They must utilize tRNAs (transfer RNAs) as well. Transfer RNAs can bind to amino acids and contain an anticodon which can hydrogen bind to an mRNA codon.[10] The process of bind an amino acid to a tRNA is known as tRNA charging. Here, the enzyme aminoacyl-tRNA-synthetase catalyzes two reactions. In the first one, it attaches an AMP molecule (cleaved from ATP) to the amino acid. The second reaction cleaves the aminoacyl-AMP producing the energy to join the amino acid to the tRNA molecule.[11]. Ribosomes have two subunits, one large and one small. These subunits surround the mRNA strand. The larger subunit contains three binding sites: A (aminoacyl), P (peptidyl), and E ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - The number of amino acids in a genetic code. AU - Amikura, Kazuaki. AU - Kiga, Daisuke. PY - 2013/8/21. Y1 - 2013/8/21. N2 - It is generally accepted that the universal genetic code evolved from a simpler form that employed fewer amino acids. We have recently developed a simplified genetic code only using 19 amino acids. Simplified codes will provide not only new insights into primordial genetic codes, but also an essential protein engineering tool for the assessment of the early stages of protein evolution and for the improvement of pharmaceuticals. In this review, we describe the evolution of the number of amino acids in a genetic code. We also discuss the utility of engineered genetic codes having a different number of amino acids from that of the universal code.. AB - It is generally accepted that the universal genetic code evolved from a simpler form that employed fewer amino acids. We have recently developed a simplified genetic code only using 19 amino acids. ...

After the mRNA arrives in the cytoplasm, an anticodon on a tRNA bonds to the codon on the mRNA Thus a correct amino acid is brought into place

Generally, if /transl_table qualifier is appropriately described with a number of the genetic code, the nucleotide sequence is automatically translated to amino acid sequence according to the genetic code. In exceptional cases of specific codons (selenocysteine etc.) that is not followed the genetic codes, describe /transl_except qualifier, appropriately. In cases of RNA editing，ribosomal frameshift，mitochondrial TAA stop codon, see Example of submission and describe with /exception and /translation, /ribosomal_slippage, /transl_except, respectively. In case of rare initiation of translation, staring with an amino acid other than methionine, describe the location of CDS feature with starting from ,, operatively indicating 5end not complete. And describe brief explanation about the translation mechanism in /note qualifier. ...

Release Factor 1 (RF1) recognizes the termination codons UAA and UAG, and is responsible for stopping translation at these codons. While obviously important for proper functioning of translation, the presence of RF1 also limits the amount of full-length protein produced if the gene contains an in-frame stop codon by competing with the Amber suppressor tRNA at the ribosome. This problem is compounded with each additional Amber in the gene, leading to a rapid dropoff of full-length protein isolated with greater than one stop codon. Until recently, it was thought that RF1 was essential for cell survival. Several methods have recently been used to make RF1 conditionally inessential, enabling its knockout. Mukai et al. introduced all seven essential genes normally ending in Amber codons on a plasmid, instead ending in UAA. [15] Johnson et al. fixed the expression of RF2, the other primary release factor in E. coli.[16] Both these measures enabled the knockout of RF1. The benefit of this knockout ...

BBOCUS (BackTranslation Based On Codon Usage Strategy) is a re-implementation of the algorithm in Graziano Pesoles BACKTR. Its based on cluster analysis (Complete Linkage algorithm), that requires a similarity matrix D containing distance between each pair of sequences of mRNA. After cluster analysis, backtranslation is performed on sequences of homogeneous pool. Unlike in Graziano Pesoles method, where the choose of homogeneous pool was made by a biologist, the choose of cluster in BBOCUS is fully automatic. A Codon Usage Table (CUT) is created through sequences of homogeneuos pool. Generally, to backtranslate an amino acid in a protein the codon chosen it is the one has maximum frequency ...

Results Mutations were identified in 14 out of the 70 (20%) colorectal carcinoma tissues. Single-base transition from GGT to GAT (glycine to aspartate) in codon 12 was detected in nine samples, while three samples presented with GGC to GAC transition in codon 13. Patients with large adenoma had a 12-fold higher likelihood of K-ras mutations (odds ratios [OR] 12.31; 95% confidence intervals [CI] 1.81-83.76). Tumours located at the left colon were more likely to present with K-ras mutations (OR 4.54; 95% CI 0.96-21.54 ...

A premature termination codon (PTC) in the ORF of an mRNA generally leads to production of a truncated polypeptide, accelerated degradation of the mRNA, and depression of overall mRNA expression. Accordingly, nonsense mutations cause some of the most severe forms of inherited disorders. The small-molecule drug ataluren promotes therapeutic nonsense suppression and has been thought to mediate the insertion of near-cognate tRNAs at PTCs. However, direct evidence for this activity has been lacking. Here, we expressed multiple nonsense mutation reporters in human cells and yeast and identified the amino acids inserted when a PTC occupies the ribosomal A site in control, ataluren-treated, and aminoglycoside-treated cells. We find that atalurens likely target is the ribosome and that it produces full-length protein by promoting insertion of near-cognate tRNAs at the site of the nonsense codon without apparent effects on transcription, mRNA processing, mRNA stability, or protein stability. The resulting

The Standard Genetic Code is organized such that similar codons encode similar amino acids. One explanation suggested that the Standard Code is the result of natural selection to reduce the fitness load that derives from the mutation and mistranslation of protein-coding genes. We review the arguments against the mutational load-minimizing hypothesis and argue that they need to be reassessed. We review recent analyses of the organization of the Standard Code and conclude that under cautious interpretation they support the mutational load-minimizing hypothesis. We then present a deterministic asexual model with which we study the mode of selection for load minimization. In this model, individual fitness is determined by a protein phenotype resulting from the translation of a mutable set of protein-coding genes. We show that an equilibrium fitness may be associated with a population with the same genetic code and that genetic codes that assign similar codons to similar amino acids have a higher ...

(= start codon) The codon 5 AUG in mRNA, at which polypeptide synthesis is started. It is recognized by formylmethionyl tRNA in bacteria and by methionyl tRNA in eukaryotes

Recent studies have revealed that endonucleolytic cleavage is a fundamental aspect of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in eukaryotes (Stevens et al. 2002; Gatfield and Tzaurralde 2004) and trans-translation in prokaryotes (Sunohara et al. 2004). In these cases, the presence of a stop codon somehow promotes endonucleolytic cleavages of mRNA. Similarly, RNase LS in E. coli was suggested to cleave mRNA, depending on a stop codon to accelerate mRNA degradation (Kai and Yonesaki 2002). In this study, we investigated the stop codon-dependent cleavage of T4 soc mRNA by RNase LS and found several characteristic features of the cleavage. First, any stop codon, amber, ochre, or opal, was effective for inducing cleavage at NE. Second, the initiation of translation was required for cleavage, which did not occur when the Shine-Dalgarno sequence was eliminated. Third, cleavage depending on an amber codon was significantly reduced by the presence of amber-codon-suppressing tRNA. All of these results strongly ...

BUT ... in case not: the ribosome would try to read it - it would NOT just skip over it! if it was at the first exon, it might take over entirely with the first start codon, or its rival start codon might compete for the ribosome thus decreasing protein production. If it had stops (stop codons) , then that would be the end of the protein synthesis at that first stop codon, unless amber/opal/ochre tRNAs are considered (phew!), or unlikely editing by APOBEC family...(!). If it had no stop codons whatsoever (very unlikely), then a readthru into the real exons of the gene would ensue, and function ...who knows the impact. As for transposon proteins, if they are still intact, then there would be a 1/3 chance of a correct reading frame x1/2 chance that it was in the right direction multiplied by the number of encoded proteins in the transposon - If you consider that a retrovirus from which they evolved has many protein-coding sequences (like HIV... env gag nef pol rev tat vif vpr vpu 9 protein ...

BUT ... in case not: the ribosome would try to read it - it would NOT just skip over it! if it was at the first exon, it might take over entirely with the first start codon, or its rival start codon might compete for the ribosome thus decreasing protein production. If it had stops (stop codons) , then that would be the end of the protein synthesis at that first stop codon, unless amber/opal/ochre tRNAs are considered (phew!), or unlikely editing by APOBEC family...(!). If it had no stop codons whatsoever (very unlikely), then a readthru into the real exons of the gene would ensue, and function ...who knows the impact. As for transposon proteins, if they are still intact, then there would be a 1/3 chance of a correct reading frame x1/2 chance that it was in the right direction multiplied by the number of encoded proteins in the transposon - If you consider that a retrovirus from which they evolved has many protein-coding sequences (like HIV... env gag nef pol rev tat vif vpr vpu 9 protein ...

Mechano-growth factor (MGF), an alternative splicing variant of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) gene, promotes cell proliferation and inhibits cell differentiation. It also plays an important role in tumor development. It is important to optimize the production process and achieve MGF protein because there is no commercial MGF protein available. In this study, the human MGF gene is cloned into pGEX-4T-1 and the recombinant human MGF (rhMGF) protein could be expressed in Rosetta (DE3) by isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside induction but not in BL21 (DE3). Mutation from rare codons to Escherichia coli preferred ones is performed. We obtain MGF(Mut54-56) and MGF(Mut-total) fragments through site-directed mutagenesis and overlapping PCR. Both pGEX-4T-1/MGF(Mut54-56)- and pGEX-4T-1/MGF(Mut-total)-transformed BL21 (DE3) can be induced to express rhMGF protein. To optimize the production technology, expression and purification of rhMGF are analyzed and compared in Rosetta (DE3) and BL21 (DE3). Results

Codon-specific Markov process for translation elongation based on 12 ribosomal states for each codon .The elongation cycle starts in state 0 corresponding to a

Wigglesworthia glossinidia brevipalpis, the obligate bacterial endosymbiont of the tsetse fly Glossina brevipalpis, is characterized by extreme genome reduction and AT nucleotide composition bias. Here, multivariate statistical analyses are used to test the hypothesis that mutational bias and genetic drift shape synonymous codon usage and amino acid usage of Wigglesworthia. The results show that synonymous codon usage patterns vary little across the genome and do not distinguish genes of putative high and low expression levels, thus indicating a lack of translational selection. Extreme AT composition bias across the genome also drives relative amino acid usage, but predicted high-expression genes (ribosomal proteins and chaperonins) use GC-rich amino acids more frequently than do low-expression genes. The levels and configuration of amino acid differences between Wigglesworthia and Escherichia coli were compared to test the hypothesis that the relatively GC-rich amino acid profiles of ...

In 31 symptomatic and 5 asymptomatic carriers of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene codon 693 mutation, 10 family members without mutation, and 5 carriers of the APP gene codon 692 mutation (3 with early-onset Alzheimer dementia, 2 with cerebral hemorrhage), a high frequency of the apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele was found. Age at onset, age at death, occurrence of dementia, and number of strokes did not differ between APP gene mutation carriers with or without epsilon 4 allele, showing that the clinical expression of these APP mutations is not influenced by the apolipoprotein E gene.

DNA sequences from the five introns were concatenated. In addition, sequence data for the mitochondrial genes 16S rRNA, 12S rRNA, COX1 and CYTB as well as for the nuclear gene RAG from penguins, kelp gull (Larus dominicanus), peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) and zebra finch were obtained from GenBank (see the electronic supplementary material). From the cDNA sequences, first and second codon positions were separated from third codon positions. We concatenated 16S and 12S rRNA genes and combined the first plus second codon sites from COX1 and CYTB genes. Hence our final data (9253 nucleotide sites) consist of five different sites including the first plus second and third codon positions of the nuclear RAG gene. To avoid estimation errors because of the effect of saturation, we did not include the third codon sites of mitochondrial genes. To determine the best model of evolution for each dataset, we used the program ModelTest [10] implemented in the software MEGA5 [11]. However, using different ...

DNA sequences from the five introns were concatenated. In addition, sequence data for the mitochondrial genes 16S rRNA, 12S rRNA, COX1 and CYTB as well as for the nuclear gene RAG from penguins, kelp gull (Larus dominicanus), peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) and zebra finch were obtained from GenBank (see the electronic supplementary material). From the cDNA sequences, first and second codon positions were separated from third codon positions. We concatenated 16S and 12S rRNA genes and combined the first plus second codon sites from COX1 and CYTB genes. Hence our final data (9253 nucleotide sites) consist of five different sites including the first plus second and third codon positions of the nuclear RAG gene. To avoid estimation errors because of the effect of saturation, we did not include the third codon sites of mitochondrial genes. To determine the best model of evolution for each dataset, we used the program ModelTest [10] implemented in the software MEGA5 [11]. However, using different ...

Ambiguous Nucleotide Tool (ANT), software for generating and evaluating degenerate codons for natural and expanded genetic codes. - mengqvist/ANT

The dataset is comprised of two main parts, firstly, RNA-Seq data of Chinese bayberry which was downloaded from NCBI SRA (Sequence Read Archive) database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/, Accession No.: SRX176533), and further assembly and annotation as in our previous work [27]. Secondly, protein-coding sequences (*_cds.fa.gz and *_protein.fa.gz) from 26 of the published plant genomes were downloaded from JGI (ftp://ftp.jgi-psf.org/pub/compgen/phytozome/v9.0) on Jan 16th, 2013.. Full length coding sequences were identified, beginning with an AUG start codon, ending with UAA, UAG or UGA stop codon. From these, low quality sequences, i.e., sequences of a length no more than 300 bp, or those having an internal stop codon, were excluded. Then additional filtering steps were used to remove low quality sequences mined from bayberry RNA-Seq. The sequences containing uncertain nucleotides or encoding low abundance genes, those with RPKM (reads per kb per million reads) value lower than 10, and ...

BACKGROUND. Activating KRAS and BRAF mutations predict unresponsiveness to EGFR-targeting therapies in colorectal cancer (CRC), but their prognostic value needs further validation. In this study, we investigated the impact of KRAS codons 12 and 13, and BRAF mutations on survival from CRC, overall and stratified by sex, in a large prospective cohort study.. METHODS. KRAS codons 12 and 13, and BRAF mutations were analysed by pyrosequencing of tumours from 525 and 524 incident CRC cases in The Malmö Diet and Cancer Study. Associations with cancer-specific survival (CSS) were explored by Cox proportional hazards regression, unadjusted and adjusted for age, TNM stage, differentiation grade, vascular invasion and microsatellite instability (MSI) status.. RESULTS. KRAS and BRAF mutations were mutually exclusive. KRAS mutations were found in 191/ 525 (36.4%) cases, 82.2% of these mutations were in codon 12, 17.3% were in codon 13, and 0.5% cases had mutations in both codons. BRAF mutations were found ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Reducing codon redundancy and screening effort of combinatorial protein libraries created by saturation mutagenesis. AU - Kille, Sabrina. AU - Acevedo-Rocha, Carlos G.. AU - Parra, Loreto P.. AU - Zhang, Zhi Gang. AU - Opperman, Diederik J.. AU - Reetz, Manfred T.. AU - Acevedo, Juan Pablo. PY - 2013/2/15. Y1 - 2013/2/15. N2 - Saturation mutagenesis probes define sections of the vast protein sequence space. However, even if randomization is limited this way, the combinatorial numbers problem is severe. Because diversity is created at the codon level, codon redundancy is a crucial factor determining the necessary effort for library screening. Additionally, due to the probabilistic nature of the sampling process, oversampling is required to ensure library completeness as well as a high probability to encounter all unique variants. Our trick employs a special mixture of three primers, creating a degeneracy of 22 unique codons coding for the 20 canonical amino acids. Therefore, codon ...

Phylogenetic codon models are often used to characterize the selective regimes acting on protein-coding sequences. Recent methodological developments have led to models explicitly accounting for the interplay between mutation and selection, by modeling the amino acid fitness landscape along the sequence. However, thus far, most of these models have assumed that the fitness landscape is constant over time. Fluctuations of the fitness landscape may often be random or depend on complex and unknown factors. However, some organisms may be subject to systematic changes in selective pressure, resulting in reproducible molecular adaptations across independent lineages subject to similar conditions. Here, we introduce a codon-based differential selection model, which aims to detect and quantify the fine-grained consistent patterns of adaptation at the protein-coding level, as a function of external conditions experienced by the organism under investigation. The model parameterizes the global mutational pressure,

Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency is a genetic disorder caused by defective production of alpha 1-antitrypsin (AAT). Gene therapy approaches have been conducted in patients with AAT deficiency with successful AAT expression, but not to the therapeutic levels required to reduce the risk of emphysema. Codon optimization, a somewhat new and evolving technique, is used by many scientists to maximize protein expression in living organisms by altering translational and transcriptional efficiency as well as protein refolding. The purpose of this study was to develop single stranded and double stranded AAT gene constructs, test their protein expression in vitro, and compare with those levels expressed by the AAT construct that is currently in clinical trials. Three constructs were to be developed, yet only one construct was successfully cloned. This clone, optimized ds-CB-AAT, illustrated increased AAT protein expression as the transfection time increased. However, protein levels were appreciably lower in

TY - JOUR. T1 - Targeted insertion of cysteine by decoding UGA codons with mammalian selenocysteine machinery. AU - Xu, Xue Ming. AU - Turanov, Anton A.. AU - Carlson, Bradley A.. AU - Yoo, Min Hyuk. AU - Everley, Robert A.. AU - Nandakumar, Renu. AU - Sorokina, Irina. AU - Gygi, Steven P.. AU - Gladyshev, Vadim N.. AU - Hatfield, Dolph L.. PY - 2010/12/14. Y1 - 2010/12/14. N2 - Cysteine (Cys) is inserted into proteins in response to UGC and UGU codons. Herein, we show that supplementation of mammalian cells with thiophosphate led to targeted insertion of Cys at the UGA codon of thioredoxin reductase 1 (TR1). This Cys was synthesized by selenocysteine (Sec) synthase on tRNA [Ser]Sec and its insertion was dependent on the Sec insertion sequence element in the 3′ UTR of TR1 mRNA. The substrate for this reaction, thiophosphate, was synthesized by selenophosphate synthetase 2 from ATP and sulfide and reacted with phosphoseryl-tRNA[Ser]Sec to generate Cys-tRNA[Ser]Sec. Cys was inserted in vivo at ...

For each amino acid, the codons are shown to the left (written 5 to 3) and the cognate anticodons are shown on the right. Note that the first two bases of the codon and anticodon interact by standard Watson-Crick base pairing rules, but the third base of the anticodon can pair by the wobble rules. Based upon these rules a minimum of 32 tRNAs are needed to recognize all of the sense codons in mRNA. The amino acids are attached to the cognate tRNA via a specific aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase or via a tRNA-dependent amino acid modification [Woese et al., 2000]. tRNA genes. There are 86 tRNA genes on the E. coli chromosome [Blattner et al., 1997]. Thus, many tRNA genes are redundant. The tRNA genes that are redundant correlate well with the tRNAs that are most abundant in the cell (tRNAs which recognize the most frequently used codons) and the single copy tRNAs encode less abundant tRNAs (i.e. tRNAs which recognize codons that are rarely used). ...

A position of a codon is said to be a n-fold degenerate site if only n of four possible nucleotides (A, C, G, T) at this position specify the same amino acid. A nucleotide substitution at a fourfold degenerate site is referred to as a synonymous nucleotide substitution,[1]:521-522 whereas nucleotide substitutions in which the substitution involves the change of a purine to a pyrimidine, or vice versa, are non-synonymous transversion substitutions.[1]:521-522 A position of a codon is said to be a non-degenerate site if any mutation at this position results in amino acid substitution. There is only one threefold degenerate site where changing to three of the four nucleotides may have no effect on the amino acid (depending on what it is changed to), while changing to the fourth possible nucleotide always results in an amino acid substitution. This is the third position of an isoleucine codon: AUU, AUC, or AUA all encode isoleucine, but AUG encodes methionine. In computation, this position is often ...

What is the most efficient translation initiation signal? Does the small subunit ribosome do the scanning for the start codon or can a fully formed ribosome scan for start codon, too? When to scan from the 5 end and when to scan from the middle of 5UTR (internal ribosomal entry)? If secondary structure embedding start codon (or Shine-Dalgarno sequence or Kozak consensus) can obscure the translation initiation signal, how would highly expressed genes avoid this? What is the best way of measuring gene expression experimentally or bioinformatically? Do translation initiation efficiency affect elongation efficiency/accuracy? How to measure translation elongation efficiency/accuracy? Will a few closely spaced minor codons severely affect translation elongation? What is the optimal translation stop signal? How do release factors decode the stop signal? How the relative concentration and decoding capacity of different release factors affect stop codon usage? How frequent do tRNAs misread stop codons ...

Goldfarb, L. G., Haltia, M., Brown, P., Nieto, A., Kovanen, J., McCombie, W. R., Trapp, S., Carleton Gajdusek, D. (1991) New mutation in scrapie amyloid precursor gene (at codon 178) in finnish Creutzfield-Jakob kindred. Lancet, 337 (8738). p. 425. ISSN 01406736 (ISSN) ...

Figure 2. tRNA pools are coordinated with the alterations in the mRNA transcriptomes with different codon usage under differentiation or proliferation conditions. The repertoire has the effects on the cell fate determination.. tRNA repertoire and disease. tRNA repertoire has fundamental impact in human diseases. Many diseases are associated with the disrupted tRNAs levels. Dysregulation of certain tRNAs can induce tumorigenesis and cancer progression.. Cancer. After cataloging the tRNA repertoire, Gingold et al demonstrated the tRNA pools are different between cancer and differentiated non-cancer cells[4]. tRNAs that are upregulated in differentiated/arrested cells are repressed in proliferating cells. Conversely, tRNAs whose levels are high in proliferating cells become low in differentiated/arrested cells. Cancer cells adjust their tRNA pools to selectively bolster translation of the mRNAs that are required for tumor progression. By comparing tRNA expression in tumor versus normal breast ...

We have determined the nucleotide sequence of the major species of E. coli tRNASer and of a minor species having the same GGA anticodon. These two tRNAs should recognize the UCC and UCU codons, the most widely used codons for serine in the highly expressed genes of E. coli. The two sequences differ in only one position of the D-loop. Neither tRNA has a modified adenosine in the position 3-adjacent to the anticodon. This can be rationalized on the basis of a structural constraint in the anticodon stem and may be related to optimization of the codon-anticodon interaction. Comparison of all E.coli serine tRNAs (and that encoded by bacteriophage T4) reveals characteristic (possibly functional) features. Evolutionary analysis suggests an eubacterial origin of the T4 tRNASer gene and the existence of a recent common ancestor for the tRNASerGGA and tRNASerGUC genes. ...

Translation termination in sup mutants. Two possible events can occur when a ribosome encounters a nonsense codon in a strain with a nonsense suppressor: (1) termination of peptide elongation can occur if the appropriate release factors associate with the ribosome, or (2) an amino acid can be inserted into the growing peptide chain if the suppressor tRNA associates with the ribosome. The efficiency of suppression depends upon how well the suppressor tRNA is charged with the appropriate amino acid, the concentration of the suppressor tRNA in the cell, and the context of the nonsense codon in the mRNA -- especially the base on the 3 side of the codon (the reasons for the context effect are still poorly understood; see Bossi, 1985). In fact, UGA is misread by tRNATrp about 1-3% of the time even in wild-type cells. Although suppressor tRNAs are often inefficient, the amount of protein produced is often sufficient to repair the mutant phenotype. How do normal proteins terminate in cells with ...

The Wobble Hypothesis, by Francis Crick, states that the 3rd base in an mRNA codon can undergo non-Watson-Crick base pairing with the 1st base of a tRNA anticodon [1] The mRNA codons first 2 bases form Hydrogen bonds with their corresponding bases on the tRNA anticodon in the usual Watson-Crick manner, in that they only form base pairs with complimentary bases. [2] However, the formation of Hydrogen bonds between the 3rd base on the codon and the 1st base on the anticodon can potentially occur in a non-Watson-Crick manner. Therefore different base pairs to those usually seen can form at this position. [3] ...

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Figure 1: A parallel genetic code. There are several major challenges in genetically encoding multiple unnatural amino acids into proteins in living cells. First, unique new codons are required that can be used to encode the incorporation of unnatural amino acids at specific sites in proteins. Since the 64 triplet codons are used in the genome of most organisms for encoding natural proteins additional codons (such as quadruplet codons) might be used to encode the incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Second, new aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase tRNA pairs that are orthogonal to the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs in the host organism, and that uniquely direct the incorporation of an unnatural amino acid in response to a unique codon, are required. Finally the scope of cellular protein translation is limited to alpha-L amino acids and their close analogs, and alteration of the ribosome and potentially other components of the translational machinery are required to increase the chemical scope of ...

The β‐globin constructs with the wild‐type ORF or with the nonsense codon at position 39 (NS 39) contain a genomic 1423 bp β‐globin gene fragment extending from the physiological translation initiation codon to the translation termination codon, which was inserted into the pCIneo vector (Promega) at the XhoI-XbaI sites of the polylinker. The wild‐type and NS 39 gene sequences were derived from a healthy proband and from a patient with homozygous β‐thalassaemia, respectively. Constructs cWT and cNS 39 were derived from RT-PCRs of cytoplasmic RNA from HeLa cells transfected with wild‐type and NS 39 constructs and were inserted into the same position of the pCIneo vector.. The cWT‐UTR and the cNS 39‐UTR series of constructs was generated by replacement of a fragment spanning from the EcoRI site in the nominal exon 3 to an XhoI site that was inserted by in vitro mutagenesis immediately 3′ of the termination codon by sequences extending from the same EcoRI site to the XhoI site ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Self-organizing mechanism of biosystems. T2 - Asymmetric density ratio of purine and pyrimidine in RNA. AU - Naitoh, Ken. PY - 2005/5/1. Y1 - 2005/5/1. N2 - The sequence data in the world-wide databases on codons and ribosome RNA (rRNA) shows that the average density ratio of purine and pyrimidine for many of species is around 1.3, while the average density ratio in transfer RNA (tRNA) is around 1.1. The reason for this difference between tRNA, codons, and rRNA is clarified in the present report. Finally, we show that these asymmetries in density promote repeat arrays and inverse repeats inside RNA and DNA.. AB - The sequence data in the world-wide databases on codons and ribosome RNA (rRNA) shows that the average density ratio of purine and pyrimidine for many of species is around 1.3, while the average density ratio in transfer RNA (tRNA) is around 1.1. The reason for this difference between tRNA, codons, and rRNA is clarified in the present report. Finally, we show that these ...

Speaker: Edward OBrien (University of Cambridge). Understanding and manipulating protein folding and protein homeostasis in living cells is one of the great challenges facing this generation of biophysicists. It requires that we understand the concomitant folding of proteins during their biosynthesis by the ribosome molecular machine, a factor shown to be important in determining the cellular concentration of successfully folded proteins. I will discuss my efforts to understand the physical principles of such co-translational folding through the development of coarse-grained simulation force-fields, chemical kinetic modeling, and systems biology methods. I will show how these tools have allowed us to gain novel insights into fundamental issues of in vivo folding, including the impact of variable translation rates and synonymous codon usage, the effect of chaperones, and, at the cellular level, the co-translational folding properties of the E. coli proteome under different growth conditions. ...

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Of the HIV-1 mutations reported to be associated with zidovudine resistance, the mutation at codon 215 of the reverse transcriptase gene is the most commonly occurring and has the greatest impact on susceptibility. When this mutation appears, a change in drugs may prevent further immunologic and virologic deterioration.. Initially, all patients receive AZT alone. After detection of a 215 mutation in plasma RNA, patients are randomized to one of three treatment arms: AZT alone, AZT plus ddI, or AZT/ddI plus nevirapine. Patients are followed every 8 weeks and receive treatment for up to 4 years.. AS PER AMENDMENT 5/9/96: All AZT monotherapy options have been eliminated. Patients will be randomized to either Arm II or Arm III, regardless of their codon 215 status. All patients who were randomized to Arm I following a mutation at codon 215 will be rerandomized to Arm II or Arm III. All patients who were randomized to either Arm II or Arm III following a mutation at codon 215 will remain on their ...

Of the HIV-1 mutations reported to be associated with zidovudine resistance, the mutation at codon 215 of the reverse transcriptase gene is the most commonly occurring and has the greatest impact on susceptibility. When this mutation appears, a change in drugs may prevent further immunologic and virologic deterioration.. Initially, all patients receive AZT alone. After detection of a 215 mutation in plasma RNA, patients are randomized to one of three treatment arms: AZT alone, AZT plus ddI, or AZT/ddI plus nevirapine. Patients are followed every 8 weeks and receive treatment for up to 4 years.. AS PER AMENDMENT 5/9/96: All AZT monotherapy options have been eliminated. Patients will be randomized to either Arm II or Arm III, regardless of their codon 215 status. All patients who were randomized to Arm I following a mutation at codon 215 will be rerandomized to Arm II or Arm III. All patients who were randomized to either Arm II or Arm III following a mutation at codon 215 will remain on their ...

Patrick ODonoghue, PhD, assistant professor in the Departments of Biochemistry, and Chemistry, had his work on recoding the genetic code with selenocysteine featured on the cover of the January edition of Angewandte Chemie International.. His research showed for the first time that it is possible to completely change the meaning of a codon at a specific site in a protein and proves that it is possible to rewrite the genetic code altogether.. It is exciting because it shows that we have a feasible method to recode many different codons and genetically encode many more than 20 amino acids, ODonoghue said.. He and his team hope this will have applications for determining the specific role of posttranslationally modified amino acids in cells and signaling pathways. We want to be able to make these proteins with predetermined modifications to figure out exactly what their role is, he said.. For ODonoghue this was the first time his research was featured on the cover of a journal and he says it ...

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Database of translational recoding events. RECODE is a database of the utilisation of ribosomal rameshifting, translational bypassing and mRNA specific codon redefinition for gene expression.

Database of translational recoding events. RECODE is a database of the utilisation of ribosomal rameshifting, translational bypassing and mRNA specific codon redefinition for gene expression.

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ATUM. Dr. Mark Welch has been with ATUM since 2006. At ATUM, Dr. Welch developed the GeneGPS machine-learning technology for experiment-driven gene expression optimization. He currently oversees gene, protein, vector and strain engineering contracts for customers as well as new technology development. Prior to work at ATUM, Dr. Welch held positions at Applied Biosystems and at Maxygen, Inc. Dr. Welch received his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado at Boulder. ...

Uveal melanoma is the most common primary cancer of the eye and often results in fatal metastasis. Here, we describe mutations occurring exclusively at codon 625 of the SF3B1 gene, encoding splicing factor 3B subunit 1, in low-grade uveal melanomas w

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If we assume that selection acts on the amino acid sequence (the protein encoded by the gene) then the synonymous substitutions should be selectively neutral. This is not necessarily true, and is a legitimate concern in some instances, but we will ignore it here. We can count the number of synonymous and non-synonymous substitutions in a gene if we have a copy from two different species (for example, human and mouse). To standardize for differences in the number of synonymous and non-synonymous sites (there are more than twice as many non-synonymous sites in a coding sequence because, for the most part, only the third codon position is redundant), we calculate the number of synonymous differences per synonymous sites (kS or dS) and the number of non-synonymous differences per non-synonymous sites (kA or dN). The two types of statistics (dS and dN versus kS and kA) differ in how synonymous and non-synonymous sites are calculated -- for this discussion, I will be using dS and dN.. ...

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Scientists for years have known that the genetic code found in all living things contains many layers of complexity. But new research from the University of Rochester cracks the code more deeply, clarifying for example why some genes are inefficiently translated into proteins.. In a study published in the journal Cell, the researchers, co-led by Beth Grayhack, Ph.D., of the UR School of Medicine and Dentistry, discovered the existence and identity of 17 pairs of inefficient codons (DNA nucleotides or bases) within the genetic code.. Scientists have generally considered each piece of the genetic code (or codon) as a single word in a language. But the new data suggests some codon combinations act as compound words or phrases whose order and pairing has a significant impact on the translation of genes into proteins.. Consider the words pancake versus cake pan, said Grayhack, an associate professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Pediatrics, and Cancer, in the Center for RNA Biology, at the ...

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The DNATools sequencing software package version 5.1.375 is available for downloading at: http://www.crc.dk/phys/Dnatools/A01B04C04_Downloading.htm New in this revision: + Searching with protein strings on nucleotide sequences refined + File list based on Text Header content improved + Auto-build Text Headers after mail blast search improved + SAGE functions improved and thoroughly tested + Reporting facilities after SAGE tag file comparisons improved + Back-translation based on codon usage data now correct + Contig builder/editor improved (simple merge function) + Close redundant files improved (mostly for EST projects) + PSG (project subgroup) file handling improved DNATools is continuously being improved (as you may have noticed as a reader of this news group). This does not imply that upgrading is necessary each time a new revision is released. Im most cases the new revision only corrects minor bugs that you may not have noticed. My ambition, however, is to make bug fixes and improvements ...

Le Bao, M. Sc. (2004-2005). Co-supervised with Joe Bielawski. Generalized fixed effect models and likelihood based clustering in codon substitution models. (He got PhD in Univ. of Washington, and became a faculty member in Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University.) ...

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Novel p16 allele with a G to T transversion at position 451, creating a missense amino acid change at codon 145 (Asp to Cys)and possibly disrupting the donor splice site of the exon 2/3 boundary. Moskaluk CA, Hruban H, Lietman A, Smyrk T, Fusaro L, Fusaro R, Lynch J, Yeo CJ, Jackson CE, Lynch HT, Kern SE. ...

The relationships between the DNA nucleotide bases, quantitatively expressed throughout the Watson-Crick base-pairings, permit the representation of the standard genetic code as a cube inserted in the Euclidean three-dimensional vector space $\mathbb{R}^3$ [3,4]. In particular, it is plausible that the present standard genetic code was derived from an ancestral code architecture with five or more bases (see main text for full discussion). The algebraic and biological model suggests the plausibility of the transition from a primeval code with an extended DNA alphabet $\mathfrak{B}$ ={D,A,C,G,U} to the present standard code, where the symbol D represents one or more hypothetical bases with unspecific pairings. It is important to observe that though the evidence from organic chemistry experiments supports the necessity of five or more DNA bases in the primordial genetic system apparatus, the formal development of the algebraic theory necessarily leads to an extension of the DNA base alphabet. In ...

Implementation and investigation of codon and amino acid models in maximum likelihood phylogenetic software (Visiting Scholar). Molecular phylogenetics involves the inference of the evolutionary relationships between organisms based on biological data such as DNA sequences. Knowledge of these historical.... ...

4Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Bari, Italy. The AUG start codon context features have been investigated by analyzing eukaryotic mRNAs belonging to various taxonomic groups. The functional relevance of each specific position surrounding the AUG start codon has been established as a function of the measured shift between base composition observed at that particular position, and base composition averaged over all the 5 untranslated regions. A more detailed analysis carried out on human genes belonging to different isochores showed significant isochore-specific features that cannot be explained only by a mutational bias effect.. The most represented heptamers spanning from position -3 to +4 with respect to the initiator AUG have been determined for mRNAs belonging to different taxonomic groups and a web page utility has been set up (http://bigarea.area.ba.cnr.it:8000/BioWWW/ATG.html) to determine the relative abundance of a user submitted oligonucleotide context ...

A codon will be flashed on the screen. Think about the amino acid coded by that codon and then click Show Answer button to verify the correct answer. Click Next Question button to go to the next question (another codon). Repeat the same. If want to learn before taking the test, click ordered and then reset to see the codons in sequence. To see questions in shuffled order, select Random. (Total number of questions and the present question No. are displayed at the right hand top corner ...