Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias
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Sept. 27, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
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Plasmids 101: protein expression
Plasmids 101: E. coli strains for protein expression
Plasmids 101...for the codons they use to encode specific amino acids. This is possible because there are 4 bases (A, ... therefore 64 possible codons but only 20 amino acids and 3 stop codons to encode leaving 41 codons unaccounted...redundancy; multiple codons encode single amino acids. Evolutionary constraints have molded which codons... tables showing which codons encode which amino acids (see example to the right). With such simple rules...and charge the tRNAs with the appropriate amino acids. If an organism uses only a subset of codons, it... genes of interest codon optimized by ordering plasmids containing them from Addgene. If a plasmid at ...