Kmeilak Week 2

Week 2 Individual Journal Assignment

3'-gcatacgattatggtacaaggcgcatattgggtcggcggtcaaggcgaccgccgtaaaat-5'

• +1 strand: nonsense strand, first codon is stop codon.
• +2 strand: M-P-P-A-E-L-A-A-G-L-T-A-E-H-G-I-S-H-T
• +3 strand: L-C-R-Q-R-N-W-R-L-G-Y-T-R-N-M-V-L-A-Y (note: strand does not begin with Methionine, cannot exist)
• -1 strand: M-L-I-P-C-S-A-T-A-P-A-A-V-P-A-G-G-I-L
• -2 strand: V-L-stop (nonsense strand, does not begin with Methionine and terminates two amino acids in)
• -3 strand: no methionine present, no possible strand

Both the +1 and -1 reading frames are open reading frames.