Distance-dependent inhibition of translation initiation by downstream out-of-frame AUGs is consistent with a Brownian ratchet process of ribosome scanning

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BACKGROUND: Eukaryotic ribosomes are widely presumed to scan mRNA for the AUG codon to initiate translation in a strictly 5'-3' movement (i.e., strictly unidirectional scanning model), so that ribosomes initiate translation exclusively at the 5' proximal AUG codon (i.e., the first-AUG rule). RESULTS: We generate 13,437 yeast variants, each with an ATG triplet placed downstream (dATGs) of the annotated ATG (aATG)...

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