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Degenerate codon

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A codon position synthesized as a nucleotide mixture, producing several codons across a library. Equal nucleotide mixture proportions do not generally produce equal amino-acid frequencies.
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    • NNS codon Degenerate codon
    • NNK codon Degenerate codon

NNS codon

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Degenerate codon
A library codon with any base at the first two positions and G or C at the third. Its 32 codons represent the 20 standard amino acids unequally and include one stop codon.

NNK codon

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Degenerate codon
A library codon with any base at the first two positions and G or T at the third. Its 32 codons represent the 20 standard amino acids unequally and include one stop codon.

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