Inventors:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junio - Palo Alto CA, US
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galvest - Galveston TX, US
Paige S. Spencer - Galveston TX, US
Michael Stadler - San Francisco CA, US
Assignee:
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston - Galveston TX
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University - Palo Alto CA
International Classification:
C07H 21/02
US Classification:
435 61, 536 253, 435 691, 536 231, 435 681
Abstract:
The profile of translation elongation rate along an mRNA is modulated in a directed manner by locally altering codon usage, in particular utilizing differences in ribosomal dwell times among pairs of synonymous codons translated by a single tRNA through wobble base pairing. Unlike codon optimization based on organism-specific codon frequencies or tRNA pools, the methods of the invention need not change the tRNA that translates the codon, rather modulating the interaction between a given tRNA and the mRNA coding sequence.