Sentences with phrase «of codons»

The genetic code table below is for mRNA and specifies the bases in the first, second and third positions of the codon with their corresponding amino acids.

A gene, therefore, consists of a promoter, a set of codons for the amino acids in a specific enzyme, and a stop codon.

Mutation - selection models of codon substitution and their use to estimate selective strengths on codon usage Yang, Z. and R. Nielsen.

Mutation - selection models of codon substitution and their use to estimate selective strengths on codon usage.

For example a string of codons could look like this:

The set of instructions (or code) is made up of codons.

Dunham writes: «We are focusing on establishing this in bacteria to understand frameshifting and protein folding as a consequence of codon preference.

It was the first demonstration of the existence of codons.

In some cases, the error might be in the third base of a codon and still specify the same amino acid in the protein.

UGA, UAA, and UAG are stop codons; stop codons have no corresponding tRNA molecules (Actual mRNA molecules have hundreds of codons).

Also, the order of codons in the gene specifies the order of amino acids in the protein.

The actions of this topogenic sequence were independent of on - going translation and could be conferred to heterologous proteins by the engineering of a discrete set of codons.

The third, or «wobble,» position of the codon is free to accommodate certain noncanonical base pairs.

There are 64 ways of combining the four letters (U, A, G and C) into groups of three, and 61 of these codons are used to encode the 20 amino acids found in nature.