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Eukaryotic mrnas frequently have multiple 'additional' in-frame stop codon present after the first stop codon. what, if any, function would these additional stop codons have?

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User Geynen
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Well, it is possible that those stop codons have dual functions. They can act as stop signals or, on the other hand, they can be used to incorporate amino acids.

Other explanation is that multiple stop codons may reduce the rate of nonsense mutation.


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