readthrough
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readthrough
the continuation of DNA transcription beyond a normal termination sequence, due to a failure of RNA polymerase to recognize the termination signal. Readthrough may also occur in translation, where a mutation has caused a termination codon to be converted to a codon for an amino acid (a sense codon); this is the underlying etiology of several hemoglobinopathies. See also readthrough protein.
| reading frame, reading, reactivity | |
| readthrough protein, reagent, reagent grade |
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