Open AccessGlobal importance of RNA secondary structures in protein-coding sequences
Author(s) -
Markus Fricke,
Ruman Gerst,
Bashar Ibrahim,
Michael Niepmann,
Manja Marz
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty678
Subject(s) - rna , nucleic acid secondary structure , protein secondary structure , biology , codon usage bias , genetics , start codon , base pair , coding region , transfer rna , messenger rna , gene , translation (biology) , computational biology , genome , biochemistry
The protein-coding sequences of messenger RNAs are the linear template for translation of the gene sequence into protein. Nevertheless, the RNA can also form secondary structures by intramolecular base-pairing.
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