More information: Michael W. Grome et al, Engineering a genomically recoded organism with one stop codon, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08501-x Provided by Yale University ...

During protein formation, DNA (or RNA) nucleotide sequences are read three nucleotides at a time in units called codons, and each codon corresponds to a specific amino acid or stop signal (stop ...

The codons UAA, UAG, and UGA are the stop codons that signal the termination of translation. Figure 2 shows the 64 codon combinations and the amino acids or stop signals they specify. As ...