Initiation codon

... processes; a typical application is to bind in the 5'-UTR and halt the initiation complex as it travels from the 5'-cap to the start codon, preventing ribosome assembly. A single strand of RNAi oligos is loaded into the RISC ...

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... a Morpholino can target anywhere between the 5' cap and the start codon and can extend downstream into the coding sequence as long as the start ... and the small ribosomal subunit bind at the 5' cap and then other initiation factors bind, forming the initiation complex. The initiation complex ...

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... Uberbacher and Mural (1991); Uberbacher et al. (1996) Initiation codon analysis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Taxonomy/wprintgc?mode=c Microbial genome ...

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... so you may want to look further on your own. It has to do with the codon triplets, mainly the "stop codons" in particular. Here is ... before the organism is viable. Translation starts with a chain initiation codon (start codon). Unlike stop codons, the codon alone is not ...

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... and a model in which DsrA interacts with the hns mRNA start and stop codon regions to form a coaxial stack. Analogous bipartite interactions exist ... prokaryotic viruses and chloroplast proteins. As in the standard code, initiation is most efficient at AUG. In addition, GUG and UUG starts are ...

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