Identifying Open
The 44bp example above is taken
from the complete mitochondrial DNA sequence
of an Atlantic Cod. One or more stop codons (*) occur in five of the six reading frames (all
except the second frame in
the lower strand, read 5'
3').
This open reading frame (... F
T G A L I L M I A H G L A ....) is part of the code for a subunit protein of the
enzyme cytochrome oxidase .
Important note: to translate the above example, you must use the mitochondrial DNA code, which has different stop codons from the 'universal' code
Figure & text © 2007 by Steven M. Carr