cotranslation

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Etymology[edit]

co- +‎ translation

Noun[edit]

cotranslation (countable and uncountable, plural cotranslations)

  1. The joint translation of a work from one language to another by more than one person.
  2. (mathematics) An equivalence map that is the dual of a translation.
  3. (genetics) The process by which multiple ribosomes simultaneously translate a single mRNA molecule into multiple copies of the same protein.
    • 2012, James R. Swartz, Cell-Free Protein Expression, →ISBN, page 156:
      Immunoprecipitation then indicated that cotranslation resulted in stable complex formation of Kox1/TIF1B and Kox1KL/TIF1B (Fig. 18.2A, lane 4 and Fig. 18.2B, lane 11).

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