A CHANGE FROM NONSENSE TO SENSE IN THE GENETIC CODE
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPublished 1 July 1962
Seymour Benzer, Sewell P. Champe
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The results show that an ambivalent mutation that behaves like nonsense in one bacterial host may nevertheless make sense in a second (suppressor containing) host, and suggests that a suppressor mutation in the bacterium can result in addition to the cell's dictionary of a new sensible coding unit, constituting a change in the genetic code of the bacterial cell.
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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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