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How would a deletion of one nucleotide in the middle of an mRNA transcript affect the polypeptide specified by that transcript?
2007-01-06 06:21:59 · 4 answers · asked by ILTASKWAMH 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Any time you add or delete a nucleotide from any strand of RNA or DNA, you now have a strand that codes for something entirely different.
A deletion will result in a frame shift which will then cause the wrong polypeptide or protein to be constructed.
2007-01-06 06:30:54 · answer #1 · answered by ruadhdarragh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The other answers are correct for the most part, but there is a tiny chance that such a deletion would not affect the protein however remote. Because there are more codons than there are amino acids it is possible though extremely unlikely that a frameshift such as described by the first answer would result in nothing terrible.
2007-01-06 07:02:34 · answer #2 · answered by abcdefghijk 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
the deletion of a single nucleotide would cause a frameshift mutation...all the amino acids after the mutation will be changed and the protein will not work.
2007-01-06 06:37:19 · answer #3 · answered by ivorytowerboy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-06 07:00:35 · answer #4 · answered by Blossom 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋