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Protein translation is a rapid and accurate process, which has been optimized by evolution. Recently, it has been shown that tRNA reusage influences translation speed. We present the tRNA Pairing Index (TPI), a novel index to measure the degree of tRNA reusage in any gene. We describe two variants of the index, how to combine various such indices to a single one and an efficient algorithm for their computation. A statistical analysis of gene expression groups indicate that cell cycle genes have high TPI. This result is independent of other biases like GC content and codon bias. Furthermore, we find an additional unexpected codon bias that seems related to a context sensitive DNA repair.
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Friberg, M.T., Gonnet, P., Barral, Y., Schraudolph, N.N., Gonnet, G.H. (2006). Measures of Codon Bias in Yeast, the tRNA Pairing Index and Possible DNA Repair Mechanisms. In: Bücher, P., Moret, B.M.E. (eds) Algorithms in Bioinformatics. WABI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4175. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11851561_1
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