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Strains of Escherichia coli were starved for asparagine or lysine in order to increase the in vivo level of mistranslation. In a relA strain, asparagine starvation increased the error frequency in elongation factor Tu to 0.12 mistake per asparagine codon, while with lysine starvation in the same strain the error frequency per lysine codon was 0.008. The pattern of isoelectric point changes in the altered protein produced is consistent with third position misreading in the AAN codon group. This high level of mistranslation is not seen in streptomycin resistant (rpsL) strains or in most relA +strains.
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Parker, J., Friesen, J.D. “Two out of three” codon reading leading to mistranslation in vivo. Molec. Gen. Genet. 177, 439–445 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00271482
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