Article
Genetic code deviations in the ciliates: evidence for multiple and independent events.
The EMBO journal - 3 Jul 1995
Tourancheau A B, Tsao N, Klobutcher L A, Pearlman R E, Adoutte A
Abstract excerpt
In several species of ciliates, the universal stop codons UAA and UAG are translated into glutamine, while in the euplotids, the glutamine codon usage is normal, but UGA appears to be translated as cysteine. Because the emerging position of this monophyletic group in the eukaryotic lineage is relatively late, this deviant genetic code represents a derived state of the universal code. The question is therefore...
Topics
- Animals
- Ciliophora
- Codon, Terminator
- Genetic Code
- Genetic Variation
- Phosphoglycerate Kinase
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Protozoan
- RNA, Ribosomal, 28S
- Tubulin