- Ribosome shunting
Ribosome shunting is a mechanism of translation initiation in which
ribosomes physically bypass, or shunt over, parts of the 5' untranslated region to reach the initiationcodon . This enables viruses to have more information than usual in anmRNA molecule.ource
http://ntbiouser.unibe.ch/trachsel/teaching/translation/initiation/Ribosomal_shunt_pathway.htm
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