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ArticlePloS one2019

Selection for tandem stop codons in ciliate species with reassigned stop codons.

Ira Fleming, Andre R O Cavalcanti

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Article in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ira FlemingDepartment of Molecular Biology, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-4691-6933
Andre R O CavalcantiDepartment of Molecular Biology, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-8708-6932
Pomona College · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The failure of mRNA translation machinery to recognize a stop codon as a termination signal and subsequent translation of the 3' untranslated region (UTR) is referred to as stop codon readthrough, the frequency of which is related to the length, composition, and structure of mRNA sequences downstream of end-of-gene stop codons. Secondary in-frame stop codons within a few positions downstream of the primary stop codons, so-called tandem stop codons (TSCs), serve as backup termination signals, which limit the effects of readthrough: polypeptide product degradation, mislocalization, and aggregation. In this study, ciliate species with UAA and UAG stop codons reassigned to code for glutamine are found to possess statistical excesses of TSCs at the beginning of their 3' UTRs. The overrepresentation of TSCs in these species is greater than that observed in standard code organisms. Though the overall numbers of TSCs are lower in most species with alternative stop codons because they use fewer than three unique stop codons, the relatively great overrepresentation of TSCs in alternative-code ciliate species suggests that there exist stronger selective pressures to maintain TSCs in these organisms compared to standard code organisms.

Indexed as

Codon, Terminator3' Untranslated RegionsCiliophoraGenetic CodeGlutamineTetrahymena thermophila3' Untranslated RegionsCodon, TerminatorGlutamine

Identifiers

PMID31770405
PMCPMC6879139
OpenAlexW2990116351

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