Compelling Evidence Suggesting the Codon Usage of SARS-CoV-2 Adapts to Human After the Split From RaTG13

SARS-CoV-2 needs to efficiently make use of the resources from hosts in order to survive and propagate. Among the multiple layers of regulatory network, mRNA translation is the rate-limiting step in gene expression. Synonymous codon usage usually conforms with tRNA concentration to allow fast decodi...

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Main Authors: Yanping Zhang, Xiaojie Jin, Haiyan Wang, Yaoyao Miao, Xiaoping Yang, Wenqing Jiang, Bin Yin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-10-01
Series:Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/11769343211052013