codon optimization

codon optimization
An experimental strategy in which codons within a cloned gene - ones not generally used by the host cell translation system - are changed by in vitro mutagenesis to the preferred codons, without changing the amino acids of the synthesized protein.

Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture . 2015.

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