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Conversion of omnipotent translation termination factor eRF1 into ciliate-like UGA-only unipotent eRF1.
EMBO reports - 1 Sept 2002
Seit-Nebi Alim, Frolova Ludmila, Kisselev Lev
Abstract excerpt
In eukaryotic ribosomes, termination of translation is triggered by class 1 polypeptide release factor, eRF1. In organisms with a universal code, eRF1 responds to three stop codons, whereas, in ciliates with variant codes, only one or two codon(s) remain(s) as stop signals. By mutagenesis of the Y-C-F minidomain of the N domain, we converted an omnipotent human eRF1 recognizing all three stop codons into a...
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