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Recessive Lethal Nonsense Suppressor in Escherichia coli which inserts Glutamine

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A new amber suppressor which can exist only in su+/su heterozygotes inserts glutamine in response to the UAG triplet.

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SOLL, L., BERG, P. Recessive Lethal Nonsense Suppressor in Escherichia coli which inserts Glutamine. Nature 223, 1340–1342 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2231340a0

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