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SUBMITTER: Buhr F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4745992 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molecular cell 20160201 3
In all genomes, most amino acids are encoded by more than one codon. Synonymous codons can modulate protein production and folding, but the mechanism connecting codon usage to protein homeostasis is not known. Here we show that synonymous codon variants in the gene encoding gamma-B crystallin, a mammalian eye-lens protein, modulate the rates of translation and cotranslational folding of protein domains monitored in real time by Förster resonance energy transfer and fluorescence-intensity changes ...[more]