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Meaning of "start codons"

start codons: Sequences of nucleotides in genetic material that indicate the beginning of protein synthesis. In molecular biology and genetics, start codons play a crucial role in initiating the translation process from mRNA to protein
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Alternative start codons are common in the avian species.
The lst gene product has two potential start codons.
Start codons are in bold type and stop codons in italic type.
Bioinformatics programs usually allow for alternative start codons when searching for protein coding genes.
A potential ribosome binding site precedes each of the ATG start codons.
Two possible ATG start codons were identified.
The cHP hairpin is located within the capsid coding region between two AUG start codons.
These start codons can include ATG codons.
The Cap proteins are generated from a single gene that initiates translation from different start codons.
Note that the lox P sequence contains two start codons in the same orientation.
And looking for amino acids encoded by potential non-canonical start codons.
Additionally, unwanted start codons are thereby silenced.
In rare cases, certain proteins may use alternative start codons.
Gram-positive RBSs and start codons are underscored by solid and broken lines, respectively.
An enhancer, a transcriptional termination site and translational stop and start codons are provided.

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However, naturally occurring non-AUG start codons have been reported for some cellular mRNAs.
Full bars indicate stop codons, half bars ATG start codons.
The two start codons are underlined in Figure 4.
In bacteria and archaea, GUG and UUG are common start codons.
By using start codons in different reading frames the CAV genome codes for 3 unique proteins.
Ribosome binding sites were observed 5 to 7 bp upstream of all start codons.
Alternate start codons ( non-AUG ) are very rare in eukaryotic genomes.
Figure 4 is the coding sequence bgl6, wherein the two alternate start codons are underlined.
The start codons may be altered using conventional techniques including, e.g., site directed mutagenesis.
Indicated in Figure 1A are the stop and start codons ( both in black shaded boxes ).
Neither the multiple cloning site nor the C9orf72 genomic sequence contain a ATG start codons.
There are two start codons ( ATG ) in hGT gene cDNA.
Further, the AUA, AUC, and AUU codons are all allowable start codons.
The start codons of VP2 and VP3 were not mutated.
Translation start codons of VP2 and VP3 are underlined.

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