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Review
. 1991 Dec;3(6):1051-5.
doi: 10.1016/0955-0674(91)90128-l.

Ribosomal frameshifting, jumping and readthrough

R B Weiss  1
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Review

Ribosomal frameshifting, jumping and readthrough

R B Weiss. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 1991 Dec.

Abstract

New examples of high-level ribosomal frameshift and readthrough events have been described over the past year and a half. These include -1 frameshifting at tandem codons and +1 frameshifting at neighboring slow codons. Several bizarre examples of ribosome jumping and multiple stop-codon readthrough continue to perplex investigators in this field.

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