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Abstract
A sequence of successive nucleotide triplets that are read as CODONS specifying AMINO ACIDS and begin with an INITIATOR CODON and end with a stop codon (CODON, TERMINATOR).
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18 entry terms
- ORFs
- Protein Coding Region
- Coding Region, Protein
- ORF
- Open Reading Frame
- Protein Coding Regions
- Reading Frame, Open
- Region, Protein Coding
- Small Open Reading Frame
- Small Open Reading Frames
- Unassigned Reading Frame
- Unassigned Reading Frames
- Unidentified Reading Frame
- sORF
- Frame, Unidentified Reading
- Reading Frame, Unassigned
- Reading Frame, Unidentified
- Unidentified Reading Frames
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Indexed with the subheadings drug effects, ethics, genetics, immunology, physiology, radiation effects.
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History Note
1991; for UNIDENTIFIED READING FRAME and UNASSIGNED READING FRAMES use READING FRAMES 1991-2004
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Previous Indexing
- Amino Acid Sequence (1981-1990)
- Base Sequence (1977-1990)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Open Reading Frames. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016366. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016366
- Open Reading Frames. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_reading_frame
- Open Reading Frames. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q908550