Figure 2

Comparison of the codon usage and GC content of hACHE-S and oACHE-S. (A) Codon usage, expressed as a moving (window = 50 codons) geometric mean of the relative codon adaptiveness (w) was scored for hACHE-S (pink), oACHE-S (blue), and the highly-expressed plant gene rbcS (red). The CAI values of each (w averaged over the entire gene) are plotted as broken lines. Note that optimization increased the CAI value of the ACHE gene, bringing it close to the CAI value of the rbcS gene, which is even for this highly expressed gene lower than the theoretical maximal value of 1. (B) The GC content is scored for 100-base segments centering at each of the indicated bases of the hACHE and oACHE mRNA (taking into account the common TEV leader). Broken lines – the GC content of the entire coding regions.