I was annotating mitochondrial genomes, and it dawned on me that all the mitochondrial protein coding genes except CytB have a terminal stop codon. Cytochrome b instead ends on a lone T, and the TAA stop codon is completed by the addition of 3' A residues to the mRNA.
But why? Why is CytB different?
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