Editorial: Codon Usage and Dinucleotide Composition of Virus Genomes: From the Virus-Host Interaction to the Development of Vaccines

Rosa M Pintó; Cara C Burns; Gonzalo Moratorio

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.791750

Editorial: Codon Usage and Dinucleotide Composition of Virus Genomes: From the Virus-Host Interaction to the Development of Vaccines

Front Microbiol. 2021 Nov 30:12:791750. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.791750. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Rosa M Pintó¹, Cara C Burns², Gonzalo Moratorio³

Affiliations

¹ Enteric Virus Laboratory, Section of Microbiology, Virology and Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, School of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
² Division of Viral Disease, Molecular Epidemiology and Surveillance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, United States.
³ Molecular Virology Laboratory, Experimental Evolution Laboratory, Nuclear Research Centre, School of Sciences, University of la República, Institute Pasteur, Montevideo, Uruguay.

No abstract available

Keywords: codon deoptimization; codon usage bias; codon usage code for protein folding; dinucleotide bias; mutational robustness; tRNA competition; translation selection.

Publication types

Editorial