UGA is read as tryptophan in Mycoplasma capricolum.

UGA is a nonsense or termination (opal) codon throughout prokaryotes and eukaryotes. However, mitochondria use not only UGG but also UGA as a tryptophan codon. Here, we show that UGA also codes for tryptophan in Mycoplasma capricolum, a wall-less bacterium having a genome only 20-25% the size of the...

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Published in:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Main Authors: Yamao, F, Muto, A, Kawauchi, Y, Iwami, M, Iwagami, S, Azumi, Y, Osawa, S
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 1985
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC397546/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3887399/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.82.8.2306
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