Identifying Open
The 44 bp
example above is taken from the complete mitochondrial DNA sequence
of an Atlantic Cod (Gadus
morhua). One or more stop
triplets (*)
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: The above example uses the mitochondrial
DNA code, which has different stop codons
from the 'Universal' code.
Figure & text ©2024 by Steven M. Carr