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Jul 2026
Advances in Decoding Bacterial N-Terminal Proteoforms: Technologies, Challenges, and Functional Insights
It is hypothesize that alternative translation initiation represents a biologically meaningful post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism that contributes to maximizing prokaryotic coding capacity without expanding genome size, rather than merely constituting stochastic translational noise.
Valdes Snauwaert, Petra Van Damme
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