Synonymous lysine codon usage modification in a mobile antibiotic resistance gene similarly alters protein production in bacterial species with divergent lysine codon usage biases because it removes a duplicate AAA lysine codon.
Mohammed Alorabi, Aisha M. AlAmri, Yuiko Takebayashi, Kate J. Heesom, Matthew B. Avison
The paper shows that modifying synonymous lysine codon usage in blaIMP-1 increases protein production across bacterial species with different codon usage biases by reducing ribosomal slippage.
bioRxiv · Apr 3, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology