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Re:The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mR... by timy2shoes on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @04:53PM (#26482817)
Won't non-intact mRNA without a stop codon get degraded by Non-stop decay?
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Re:The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mR... by rolph on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:30PM (#26483294)
you have the idea right , but it isnt a stop codon its a signal sequence on the mRNA that would give it a hall pass.

no cytoplasmic nucleotide transport signal and it gets degraded quickly.

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