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Frameshift Suppression: a Nucleotide Addition in the Anticodon of a Glycine Transfer RNA

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Strains of Salmonella typhimurium carrying the frameshift suppressor mutation, sufD, produce a glycine tRNA with the nucleotide quadruplet, CCCC, at the anticodon position, instead of the triplet, CCC, found in wildtype.

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  1. Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 93106

    DONALD L. RIDDLE & JOHN CARBON

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RIDDLE, D., CARBON, J. Frameshift Suppression: a Nucleotide Addition in the Anticodon of a Glycine Transfer RNA. Nature New Biology 242, 230–234 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio242230a0

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