- Nonsense suppressor
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A nonsense suppressor is a tRNA mutation that suppresses the protein truncation resulting from a nonsense mutation. The nonsense suppressor is a tRNA gene (from Escherichia coli) which has a mutated anticodon.
The mutated anticodon recognizes the nonsense stop codon.
SUP35, a nonsense suppressor identified by Wickner in 1994, is a prion protein.
Sources
Hartwell, Leland; L. Hood, M. Goldberg, A. Reynolds, L. Silver, R. Veres (2004). Genetics: From Genes to Genomes. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. p. 267. ISBN 0-07-246248-5. http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072919302/information_center_view0/.
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