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![](/dl_thumbs/d5/97/d597bb983d43617c79bb1312aa56b3642da2b926.jpg) | Gesteland, Raymond F.; Baranov, Pavel V.; Atkins, John F. | Expression levels influence ribosomal frameshifting at the tandem rare arginine codons AGG_AGG and AGA_AGA in Escherichia coli | ABSTRACT: The rare codons AGG and AGA comprise 2% and 4%, respectively, of the arginine codons of Escherichia coli K-12, and their cognate tRNAs are sparse. At tandem occurrences of either rare codon, the paucity of cognate aminoacyl tRNAs for the second codon of the pair facilitates peptidyl-tRNA... | Gene expression; Frameshifting; E. coli; Arginine codons | 2005 |