Researchers find hidden proteins in bacteria

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 15:40 in Biology & Nature

Scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a way to identify the beginning of every gene—known as a translation start site or a start codon—in bacterial cell DNA with a single experiment and, through this method, they have shown that an individual gene is capable of coding for more than one protein.

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