'Rhythm' of protein folding encoded in RNA, biologists find
Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—Multiple RNA sequences can code for the same amino acid, but differences in their respective "optimality" slow or accelerate protein translation. Stanford biologists find optimal and non-optimal codons are consistently associated with specific protein structures, suggesting that they influence the mysterious process of protein folding.