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SUBMITTER: An E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7325874 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in molecular biosciences 20200619
During translation elongation, the ribosome serially adds amino acids to a growing polypeptide over many rounds of catalysis. The ribosome remains bound to mRNAs over these multiple catalytic cycles, requiring high processivity. Despite its importance to translation, relatively little is known about how mRNA sequences or signaling pathways might enhance or reduce ribosome processivity. Here, we describe a metric for ribosome processivity, the ribosome density index (RDI), which is readily calcul ...[more]