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From: howard@cpocd2.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: information content of DNA
Message-ID: <577@cpocd2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 17:26:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 15 17:26:33 1987
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Reply-To: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman)
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>In article <569@cpocd2.UUCP> howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>>Any sequence not containing a terminator does, in some sense, code for 6
>>proteins.

In article <918@sigi.Colorado.EDU> eddy@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Sean Eddy) writes:
>What is meant by a terminator here? To me, 'terminator' refers to a 
>transcriptional terminator. The regulatory signals for protein
>translation are different. Having no transcription stop site
>should, to my mind, make little difference to protein translation.

All I was trying to do was eliminate the possibility of having the coding for
one protein stop and the coding for another start in the same reading frame
in the same sequence, because then the counting gets messier.  Perhaps it
would be clearer to look at it as a function of the base pairs: how many
separate proteins are there for which THIS BASE PAIR is part of the coding?
Or, rephrasing my above statement: Any base-pair can theoretically be part
of the coding for 6 proteins.
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