• Title of article

    Composition bias and genome polarity of RNA viruses

  • Author/Authors

    Prasert Auewarakul، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2005
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    33
  • To page
    37
  • Abstract
    I have observed a relationship between GC content in coding sequences of RNA viruses and their genome polarity. Positive-stranded RNA viruses have significantly higher GC contents than negative-stranded RNA viruses. Coding sequences of all negative-stranded RNA viruses are biased toward high A in coding strands (high T in genomes), while two distinct patterns were observed among positive-stranded RNA genomes. This finding suggests that RNA viruses with different genome polarity are under different mutational pressure, which may be a consequence of the difference in the strategies of viral genome expression and replication. The GC content directly affects the viral codon adaptation index using highly expressed human genes as the reference set, which may theoretically predict the efficiency of viral gene expression in human cells.
  • Keywords
    RNA genome , GC content , Genome polarity
  • Journal title
    Virus Research
  • Serial Year
    2005
  • Journal title
    Virus Research
  • Record number

    786147