frameshift
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.67 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To use a starting point for translating a series of nucleotides that is off by an amount not divisible by three, resulting in an entirely distinct set of codons.
Example Sentences
- "Commonly, there are stimulatory signals in mRNA distinct from the shift site that greatly increase the level of frameshifting at the shift site."
- "Considering these costs, it seems likely that mechanisms may exist to stop frameshifted translation as soon as possible, depending on the frequency of occurrence."
- "Ribosomal frameshifting at a particular site can yield two protein products from one coding sequence or one protein product from two overlapping open reading frames."