See Also: initiating codon(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
codon(dictionary)
codon(medicine)
Codon(health)
ambiguous codon(medicine)
codon, initiator(medicine)
codon, nonsense(medicine)
codon, terminator(medicine)
nonsense codon(medicine)

initiating codon (medicine)


initiating codon


The trinucleotide AUG (or sometimes GUG) that codes for the first amino acid in protein sequences, formylmethionine; the latter is often removed post-transcriptionally.

Synonym: start codon.