The ambush hypothesis: Hidden stop codons prevent off-frame gene reading

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 701-705

  Seligmann, Hervé ^a,b   Pollock, David D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CODON; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; STOP CODON; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CODON, TERMINATOR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; MITOCHONDRIA; PRIMATES;

PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 8144223724     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.2004.23.701     Document Type: Conference Paper

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