Mesh term Codon, Nonsense
Browse to parent terms:Codon, Terminator
Mutation
Description
An amino acid-specifying codon that has been converted to a stop codon (CODON, TERMINATOR) by mutation. Its occurance is abnormal causing premature termination of protein translation and results in production of truncated and non-functional proteins. A nonsense mutation is one that converts an amino acid-specific codon to a stop codon.Search for this term in our Faculty Database
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