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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. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Amyloid protein of Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (Indiana kindred) is an 11 kd fragment of prion protein with an N-terminal glycine at codon 58. Biologists have long held that swapping one codon for another doesn't change the resulting protein's structure, as long as both codons instruct the machinery to insert the same amino acid. The Sec residue in selenoproteins as GSH-Px and SeP is co-translationally incorporated via a predefined UGA codon, which has a specific covalent binding capacity. |
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