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Translation rate of amino acid codons

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Organism	Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Reference	Gilchrist MA, Wagner A. A model of protein translation including codon bias, nonsense errors, and ribosome recycling. J Theor Biol. 2006 Apr 21 239(4):417-34 Supplemental data table S1PubMed ID16171830
Primary Source	1)T. Ikemura, Codon usage and transfer-RNA content in unicellular and multicellular organisms, Mol. Biol. Evol. 2 (1985), pp. 13–34. (2) R. Percudani, A. Pavesi and S. Ottonello, Transfer RNA gene redundancy and translational selection in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, J. Mol. Biol. 268 (1997), pp. 322–330. (3) H. Akashi, Translational selection and yeast proteome evolution, Genetics 164 (2003), pp. 1291–1303PubMed ID3916708, 9159473, 12930740
Comments	Range: 0.965 aa/sec (Leu, CUU) - 27.0 aa/sec (Gly, GGC), ~30-fold difference. Sørensen et al 1989 PMID 2474074 report a sixfold difference between codon translation rates in E. coli.
Entered by	Uri M
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