| nonsense mutation |
A mutation which converts an amino-acid-specifying codon into a stop codon, eg, a change from UAU (tyr) to UAG (amber) would lead to the premature termination of a polypeptide chain at the place where a tyrosine was inserted in the wild-type. See stop codon; suppressor.
Ãâó: www.fao.org/docrep/003/X3910E/X3910E17.htm
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| nonsense mutation |
A mutation that causes the formation of a nonsense codon and the truncation of the protein product.
Ãâó: www.genpromag.com/Glossary~LETTER~N.html
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| nonsense mutation |
A gene mutation in which a base-pair change in the DNA causes a change in an mRNA codon from an amino acid-coding codon to a chain-terminating (nonsense) codon. As a result, polypeptide chain synthesis is terminated prematurely and is therefore either nonfunctional or, at best, partially functional.
Ãâó: www.modernhumanorigins.com/n.html
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| nonsense mutation |
A mutation that changes a normal codon into one which does not code for an amino acid.
Ãâó: www.pestmanagement.co.uk/lib/glossary/glossary_n.s...
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| nonsense mutation |
a genetic mutation where a single nucleotide substitution creates a stop codon.
Ãâó: www.uvm.edu/~cgep/Education/Glossary.html
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