UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCHERS FIND THAT MULTIPLE SILENT
MUTATIONS GREATLY IMPACT PROTEIN TRANSLATION
So-called silent DNA mutations earned their title because,
according to the fundamental rules of biology, they should be inconsequential.
Reported on June 5 in PLOS Genetics online, University of Utah researchers
experimentally proved there are frequent exceptions to the rule. The work was
conducted in the bacteria, Salmonella enterica, used to study basic biological
mechanisms that are often conserved in humans.