Open reading frame

Open Reading Frame (ORF)
Regions of DNA/RNA sequences that have the potential to code for proteins.
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Open Reading Frame
An open reading frame is a portion of a DNA molecule that, when translated into amino acids, contains no stop codons.

Open reading frame (ORF)
A stretch of DNA which potentially codes for protein. A length of DNA not interrupted by stop codons.

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Open reading frame. A long DNA sequence that is unin- terrupted by a stop codon and encodes part or all of a protein. (See Reading frame.) ...

Open reading frame (ORF)
The sequence of DNA or RNA located between the start-code sequence (initiation codon) and the stop-code sequence (termination codon).
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Open reading frame (ORF)
A sequence of DNA following an initiation codon that does not contain a stop codon. Detection of an open reading frame in DNA implies the presence of a gene that codes for a protein.
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OPEN READING FRAME - A region within a reading frame of an mRNA molecule that potentially encodes a polypeptide; and which does not contain a translational stop codon (see READING FRAME).

Open reading frame: Any region of DNA or RNA where a protein could be encoded. In other words, there must be a string of nucleotides (possibly starting with a Met codon) in which one of the three reading frames has no stop codons.

ORF Open reading frame. A continuous sequence of nucleotide triplets (codons) in which each triplet codes for an amino acid.

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Open reading frame (ORF)
A sequence of DNA following an initiation codon that does not contain a stop codon. Detection of an open reading frame in DNA implies the presence of a gene that codes for a protein.

ORF An open reading frame (ORF) corresponds to any nucleotide sequence that can potentially encode a protein.

The open reading frame (ORF) sequences from these completed genomes can be used to predict the proteins synthesized, but laboratory methods are needed to verify those predictions.

One Gene - One enzyme Theory Oogenesis Ooplasmic transfer Open Reading Frame (ORF)DNA sequence beginning with ATG and read in triplets until it ends with a STOP codon. An ORF is potentially able to encode a polypeptide.

Three components comprise an expression cassette: a promoter sequence, an open reading frame, and a 3' untranslated region that, in eukaryotes, usually contains a polyadenylation site.

When the first genes were sequenced from it, it was found that all the information for the protein lay in one continuous stretch (an open reading frame (ORF)).

Exon: The coding sequence of a eukaryotic gene (see also open reading frame).
Exon - intron boundary: Introns end with the dinucleotide ApG [3' splice site / acceptor] and start with the dinucleotide GpT [5' splice site / donor].

See also: Reading frame, Sequence, DNA, Protein, Gene