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Different codons, same amino acid
Email: Melissa Phillips - mlphilli@u.washington.edu News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040817-01
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The genomes of species from bacteria to Drosophila show unique biases for particular synonymous codons—varying triplet base pairs that code for the same amino acids—but it has been unclear if such codon preferences exist in mammals. In a paper published in PNAS this week, a group led by Joshua B. Plotkin of the Bauer Center for Genomic Research at Harvard shows that cell usage of synonymous codons is systematically different between human tissues. In addition, the authors make a case that these codon choices result from evolutionary selection.
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