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the production of non-functional, potentially cytotoxic protein products. Typical coding sequences of DNA lack in-frame internal stop codons to avoid the premature reduction of protein products when translation proceeds normally. The ambush hypothesis suggests that kinetic, ''cis''-acting mechanisms are responsible for the productive frameshifting of translational units so that the degeneracy of the genetic code can be used to prevent deleterious

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