Stops making sense: translational trade-offs and stop codon reassignment
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Efficient gene expression involves a trade-off between (i) premature termination of protein synthesis; and (ii) readthrough, where the ribosome fails to dissociate at the terminal stop. Sense codons that are similar in sequence to st...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-07-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/227 |