stop codon

Significado (Inglés)

a sequence of three RNA nucleotides (A, C, G or U) that instruct the synthesis, or translation, of a protein to stop. The three-letter stop codon sequences have been given names: "UAG" is amber, "UGA" is opal, and "UAA" is ochre.

Conceptos

codón de parada

Sinónimos

nonsense codon

nonsense triplet

termination codon

terminator codon

Traducciones

codon d’arrêt

triplet

codon