A Closer Look at Start Codons (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

A Closer Look at Start Codons

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Image of an agar plate streaked with 16 different strains of Escherichia coli, each containing a green fluorescent protein with a different start codon (annotated along the edge of the plate). The 16 codons correspond to the 16 strongest expressing codons. Image is a composite of two super-imposed images from a laser scanner.

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Jeff Glasgow/Ariel Hecht/Kelly Irvine/NIST

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