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stop codon
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stop codon [′stäp ′kō‚dän]
(genetics)


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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).
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.
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.
 
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