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Relief of Polarity in E. coli by “suA”

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The “suppressor A” allele facilitates the survival of the untranslated mRNA immediately distal to nonsense codons in the tryptophan operon of E. coli. This may be associated with lack of an endonuclease which is thought to degrade the exposed mRNA.

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  1. Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115

    DANIEL E. MORSE

  2. Department of Biochemistry, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, 94305

    PAUL PRIMAKOFF

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MORSE, D., PRIMAKOFF, P. Relief of Polarity in E. coli by “suA”. Nature 226, 28–31 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226028a0

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