Knowledge of codon usage in prokaryotic mechanosensation genes may benefit for the study in eukaryotes in which only few of them have been identified and functionally analysed.

• 真核生物中至今仅有少数几个机械敏感性离子通道（mechanosensitive ion channel，MSC）基因被发现，对原核生物MSC 基因的密码子使用进行研究，希望能为真核生物MSC 的研究提供有意义的线索。