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ReviewBiotechnology journal2011

Codon usage: nature's roadmap to expression and folding of proteins.

Evelina Angov

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Review in Biotechnology journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 98 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

98 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Evelina AngovDivision of Malaria Vaccine Development, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA. Evelina.angov@us.army.mil

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomedical and biotechnological research relies on processes leading to the successful expression and production of key biological products. High-quality proteins are required for many purposes, including protein structural and functional studies. Protein expression is the culmination of multistep processes involving regulation at the level of transcription, mRNA turnover, protein translation, and post-translational modifications leading to the formation of a stable product. Although significant strides have been achieved over the past decade, advances toward integrating genomic and proteomic information are essential, and until such time, many target genes and their products may not be fully realized. Thus, the focus of this review is to provide some experimental support and a brief overview of how codon usage bias has evolved relative to regulating gene expression levels.

Indexed as

CodonProtein FoldingProteinsDatabases, Nucleic AcidGenomicsModels, BiologicalProtein BiosynthesisProtein EngineeringProteomicsRecombinant ProteinsRibosomesCodonProteinsRecombinant Proteins

Identifiers

PMID21567958
PMCPMC3166658

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