Non-optimal codon usage is a mechanism to achieve circadian clock conditionality

Yao Xu, Peijun Ma, Premal Shah, Antonis Rokas, Yi Liu and Carl Hirschie Johnson ()
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Yao Xu: Vanderbilt University
Peijun Ma: Vanderbilt University
Premal Shah: University of Pennsylvania
Antonis Rokas: Vanderbilt University
Yi Liu: The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Carl Hirschie Johnson: Vanderbilt University

Nature, 2013, vol. 495, issue 7439, 116-120

Abstract: Central circadian proteins in cyanobacteria unexpectedly use non-optimal codons, and optimizing their codes is shown to cause a change in an adaptive response to environmental conditions.

Date: 2013
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