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Can informational suppressors suppress missense mutations too?

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Can informational suppressors suppress missense mutations too?

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Sure. You can have any kind of mutation in a tRNA. However, substituting an amino acid for a stop codon, giving a full-length protein, is going to have a higher chance of suppressing a mutant phenotype than substituting one amino acid for another would (there are lots of a.a.s, so the mut tRNA could still put in the wrong one!

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