internal translation termination

[CSC]

On 7 Jul 1999, Glover Martin wrote:

> blight <hacheyj at em.agr.ca> wrote:
> > Hello,
> 
> > Upon sequencing a cDNA, I've encountered an internal translation
> > termination codon.
> > This splits the coding region into 2 orfs.
> > Any chance that the translation machinery skips internal termination
> > signals?
> 
> Short answer: yes.
> What is the termination codon?  And is your protein bacterial or
> eukaryotic?

To me the simpler explanation that you are dealing with either a PCR or
sequencing error is more attractive. Can you exclude this ?



Kind regards,

Clemens Suter-Crazzolara, PhD

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