Term Name: | viral translational termination-reinitiation |
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Synonyms: | termination reinitiation involved in viral translation, viral translation involving termination re-initiation, viral translation involving termination-reinitiation, viral translation involving translational stop-start |
Definition: | A process which occurs as part of viral mRNA translation which allows expression of a downstream open reading frame (ORF) in a dicistronic mRNA. In this process, ribosomes translate the upstream ORF but following termination, a proportion of 40S subunits remain tethered to the mRNA and go on to re-initiate translation at the start codon of the downstream ORF. |
Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0075525] QuickGO AmiGO |