RNA virus attenuation by codon pair deoptimisation is an artefact of increases in CpG/UpA dinucleotide frequencies
Mutating RNA virus genomes to alter codon pair (CP) frequencies and reduce translation efficiency has been advocated as a method to generate safe, attenuated virus vaccines. However, selection for disfavoured CPs leads to unintended increases in CpG and UpA dinucleotide frequencies that also attenua...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2014-12-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/04531 |