Global importance of RNA secondary structures in protein coding sequences
We show that the nucleotide distribution within codons is biased in all taxa of life on a global scale. Thereby, RNA secondary structures that require base-pairing between the position 1 of a codon with the position 1 of an opposing codon (here named RNA secondary structure class c1) are under-represented. We conclude that this bias may result from the co-evolution of codon sequence and mRNA secondary structure, suggesting that RNA secondary structures are generally important in protein coding regions of mRNAs. The above result also implies that codon position 2 has a smaller influence on the amino acid choice than codon position 1.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca
Global importance of RNA secondary structures in protein coding sequences
Source: Viral Bioinformatics
