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You might find the coding for selenocysteine interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECIS_element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECIS_element tl;dr: seleno
by moring 3y ago
You might find the coding for selenocysteine interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECIS_element https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECIS_element
tl;dr: selenocysteine doesn't have a normal coding as a base triple, but as re-interpretation of a stop codon due to the information stored _after_ that stop codon that makes an RNA stick to itself during translation.