No Ramp Needed: Spandrels, Statistics, and a Slippery Slope
Richard Sejour, Janet Leatherwood, Alisa Yurovsky, Bruce Futcher
The paper re-examines the slow translation ramp at gene 5 ends in yeast, finding it is a spandrel rather than an adaptive feature, as slow translation correlates with poor gene expression.
eLife · Jul 15, 2024Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology