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The initiator regions of the three cistrons of R17 bacteriophage RNA have been isolated and sequenced. All three regions contain a UGA triplet as well as the expected AUG and two contain the sequence GGUUUGA. The initiator regions thus represent untranslated sequences between termination and initiation codons.
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STEITZ, J. Polypeptide Chain Initiation: Nucleotide Sequences of the Three Ribosomal Binding Sites in Bacteriophage R17 RNA. Nature 224, 957–964 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224957a0
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