Codon usage influences fitness through RNA toxicity
Pragya Mittal, James Brindle, J O'Brien Stephen, Joshua B. Plotkin, Grzegorz R. Kudla
The paper shows that synonymous codon usage affects bacterial fitness through translation-independent RNA toxicity, identifying mRNA sequence determinants and suppressor strains.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Aug 6, 2018Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology