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The Mystery of Stop-Codons....

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04-22-2008 9:37 AM

Reply to: Message 1 by semilanceata
04-21-2008 2:06 PM

some science (not from wiki)

Right from the start I remembered that it was a translation termination factor, which is a protein...

From Molecular Cell Biology 5th ed - Lodish et al pp. 125-131.

I googled eRF1 and found something interesting here which basically implies that eukariotic polypeptide chain release factors can also work in bacteria (which still amazes me).

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