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SUBMITTER: Muhlhausen S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6041473 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mühlhausen Stefanie S Schmitt Hans Dieter HD Pan Kuan-Ting KT Plessmann Uwe U Urlaub Henning H Hurst Laurence D LD Kollmar Martin M
Current biology : CB 20180618 13
Although the "universal" genetic code is now known not to be universal, and stop codons can have multiple meanings, one regularity remains, namely that for a given sense codon there is a unique translation. Examining CUG usage in yeasts that have transferred CUG away from leucine, we here report the first example of dual coding: Ascoidea asiatica stochastically encodes CUG as both serine and leucine in approximately equal proportions. This is deleterious, as evidenced by CUG codons being rare, n ...[more]