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 © 2012 by Steven M. Carr