Proline codon pair selection determines ribosome pausing strength and translation efficiency in bacteria

Ralph Krafczyk et al. demonstrate that both proline codon usage and prolyl-tRNA abundance affect mRNA translation rates of polyproline-motifs in bacteria. These results provide additional insight into sequence-specific translation regulation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ralph Krafczyk, Fei Qi, Alina Sieber, Judith Mehler, Kirsten Jung, Dmitrij Frishman, Jürgen Lassak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02115-z