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The vertebrate mitochondrial code (translation table 2) ... A The codon AUG both codes for methionine and serves as an initiation site: ...
The standard code; The vertebrate mitochondrial code; The yeast mitochondrial code; The mold, protozoan, and coelenterate mitochondrial code and the mycoplasma/spiroplasma code; The invertebrate mitochondrial code; The ciliate, dasycladacean and hexamita nuclear code; The deleted kinetoplast code; cf. table 4. deleted, cf. table 1.
A codon table can be used to translate a genetic code into a sequence of amino acids. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The standard genetic code is traditionally represented as an RNA codon table, because when proteins are made in a cell by ribosomes , it is messenger RNA (mRNA) that directs protein synthesis .
Bacteria: The code is used in Entomoplasmatales and Mycoplasmatales (Bove et al. 1989). The situation in the Acholeplasmatales is unclear. Based on a study of ribosomal protein genes, it had been concluded that UGA does not code for tryptophan in plant-pathogenic mycoplasma-like organisms (MLO) and the Acholeplasmataceae (Lim and Sears, 1992) and there seems to be only a single tRNA-CCA for ...
A Possible start codons in NCBI table 1. ATG is most common. [2] The two other start codons listed by table 1 (GTG and TTG) are rare in eukaryotes. [3] Prokaryotes have less strigent start codon requirements; they are described by NCBI table 11.
The resulting amino acid (or stop codon) probabilities for each codon are displayed in a genetic code logo. [57] As of January 2022, the most complete survey of genetic codes is done by Shulgina and Eddy, who screened 250,000 prokaryotic genomes using their Codetta tool. This tool uses a similar approach to FACIL with a larger Pfam database.
[10] [12] Eight of the 9 genes on the heavy strand code for mitochondrial tRNA molecules. Human mtDNA consists of 16,569 nucleotide pairs. The entire molecule is regulated by only one regulatory region which contains the origins of replication of both heavy and light strands. The entire human mitochondrial DNA molecule has been mapped.
For each nucleotide triplet (square brackets), the corresponding amino acid is given (one-letter code), either in the +1 reading frame for MT-ATP8 (in red) or in the +3 frame for MT-ATP6 (in blue). In this genomic region, the two genes overlap. The start codon is the first codon of a messenger RNA (mRNA) transcript translated by a ribosome.