The Kozak consensus sequence is a nucleic acid motif that functions as the protein translation initiation site in most eukaryotic mRNA transcripts.
M Kozak, “Point mutations define a sequence flanking the AUG initiator codon that modulates
translation by eukaryotic ribosomes,” Cell 44, no. 2 (January 31, 1986): 283-92,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3943125. “I have identified ACC-ATG-G as the optimal sequence for initiation by eukaryotic ribosomes”
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