Table 2

Start codon usage among the SD populations

Start codon usage

Start codons

upstream SD sequence (% genes)

SD sequence and downstream start codon reflection (% genes)

mispredicted start codon or downstream start codon reflection (% genes)

without SD sequence (% genes)

AUG

84.8%

33.8%

29.7%

79.8%

GUG

9.5%

62.7%

65.4%

11.2%

UUG

5.6%

3.4%

4.6%

8.7%

other

0.1%

0.1%

0.3%

0.3%

Percentages of start codon usage among genes with an upstream SD sequence, genes with a SD sequence and downstream start codon reflection, genes with a mispredicted start codon or downstream start codon reflection, and genes without SD sequence.

Pallejà et al. BMC Genomics 2009 10:537   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-537