Overlapping reading frames in Oenothera mitochondria
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Extensively overlapping reading frames in a second mammalian gene.
Given the roominess of the mammalian genome, the discovery of a gene that saves space by being translated in two reading frames over a distance of 356 codons is unexpected. Klemke et al. (2001) have found that the rat XLαs gene, previously shown to encode a G protein α subunit, encodes a second protein— dubbed ALEX—in the +1 reading frame. The start codon for ALEX (AUGALEX) is 32 nt downstream ...
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عنوان ژورنال: FEBS Letters
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0014-5793
DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(85)80143-5