An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...
UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins ...
The genetic code is not frozen. Genetic code variations found in microorganisms include codon bias, codon reassignment, ambiguous decoding and natural genetic code expansion. Codon bias, which is ...
Living things, from bacteria to humans, depend on a workforce of proteins to carry out essential tasks within their cells. Proteins are chains of amino acids that are strung together according to ...
A team led by researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has succeeded in deciphering a fundamental process of molecular biology: the incorporation of selenocysteine – the ‘21st amino acid’ ...