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codon
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codon: see nucleic acid nucleic acid, any of a group of organic substances found in the chromosomes of living cells and viruses that play a central role in the storage and replication of hereditary information and in the expression of this information through protein synthesis.
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For example, DENV-2 isolated in Texas, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, and Puerto Rico had a 10-nt deletion starting at the 19th nucleotide position from the ORF termination codon (13).
Novel dengue virus type 1 from travelers to Yap state, Micronesia by Kurane, Ichiro / Emerging Infectious Diseases
R]) promote the synthesis of mRNAs in which the leaderless AUG triplets are in-frame with termination codons anywhere from 2 to 9 codons downstream.
5'-proximal AUG sequences as translation initiation signals on mRNAs ... by Jones III, Robert L. / Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Science
which translates into an amino acid with a termination codon, which normally stops protein assembly in the ribosome because it has no associated tRNA or amino acid.
Building new proteins with odd parts by Amato, I. / Science News
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