Unusual base pairing during the decoding of a stop codon by the ribosome.
Fernandez, I.S., Ng, C.L., Kelley, A.C., Wu, G., Yu, Y.T., Ramakrishnan, V.(2013) Nature 500: 107-110
- PubMed: 23812587 
- DOI: 10.1038/nature12302
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- PubMed Abstract: 
During normal translation, the binding of a release factor to one of the three stop codons (UGA, UAA or UAG) results in the termination of protein synthesis. However, modification of the initial uridine to a pseudouridine (Ψ) allows efficient recogni ...