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SUBMITTER: Burow DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6169788 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Burow Dana A DA Martin Sophie S Quail Jade F JF Alhusaini Najwa N Coller Jeff J Cleary Michael D MD
Cell reports 20180801 7
Tissue-specific mRNA stability is important for cell fate and physiology, but the mechanisms involved are not fully understood. We found that zygotic mRNA stability in Drosophila correlates with codon content: optimal codons are enriched in stable transcripts associated with metabolic functions like translation, while non-optimal codons are enriched in unstable transcripts, including those associated with neural development. Bioinformatic analyses and reporter assays revealed that similar codons ...[more]