Codon usage in Kluyveromyces lactis and in yeast cytochrome c-encoding genes
1994; Elsevier BV; Volume: 139; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0378-1119(94)90521-5
ISSN1879-0038
AutoresMaría Ángeles Freire-Picos, María-Isabel González-Siso, Esther Rodríguez‐Belmonte, Ana Maria Rodríguez-Torres, Elvira Ramil, M. Esperanza Cerdán,
Tópico(s)RNA Research and Splicing
ResumoCodon usage (CU) in Kluyveromyces lactis has been studied. Comparison of CU in highly and lowly expressed genes reveals the existence of 21 optimal codons; 18 of them are also optimal in other yeasts like Saccharomyces cerevisiae or Candida albicans. Codon bias index (CBI) values have been recalculated with reference to the assignment of optimal codons in K. lactis and compared to those previously reported in the literature, taking as reference the optimal codons from S. cerevisiae. A new index, the intrinsic codon deviation index (ICDI), is proposed to estimate codon bias of genes from species in which optimal codons are not known; its correlation with other index values, like CBI or effective number of codons (Nc), is high. A comparative analysis of CU in six cytochrome-c-encoding genes (CYC) from five yeasts is also presented and the differences found in the codon bias of these genes are discussed in relation to the metabolic type to which the corresponding yeasts belong. Codon bias in the CYC from K. lactis and S. cerevisiae is correlated to mRNA levels.
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