frameshifting
Molecular Biol.
noun
The occurrence or initiation of a frameshift; specifically (more fully ribosomal frameshifting) a mechanism by which certain viruses and yeasts, etc. can produce different proteins from a single messenger RNA sequence by the use of different sites for initiation and termination of translation.
Origin
1960s.
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