The high mutational sensitivity of ccdA antitoxin is linked to codon optimality
Soumyanetra Chandra, Kritika Gupta, Shruti Khare, Pehu Kohli, Aparna Asok, Sonali Vishwa Mohan, Harsha Gowda, Raghavan Varadarajan
The paper shows that ccdA antitoxin in E. coli is highly sensitive to mutations, including synonymous ones, due to codon usage and operonic context effects on translation efficiency.
Molecular Biology and Evolution · Sep 5, 2022Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology