Codon clusters
By Richard GrantCodon clusters © Alfred Pasieka / Photo Researchers, Inc.The paper G. Cannarozzi et al., “A role for codon order in translation dynamics,” Cell, 141:355-67, 2010.http://bit.ly/codonorder The finding For more than 8 years, Yves Barral’s group at the ETH in Zürich has puzzled over this question: When the same amino acid is repeated several times in a protein, why is it often specified by the same codon? His group used a
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