co-translational protein tagging, cotranslational protein tagging, protein modification by trans-translation
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Definition
A protein modification process in which a polypeptide is added to a nascent polypeptide cotranslationally by trans-translation.
Source:
GOC:jsg,
GOC:jh2,
GOC:mah
Comment
Note that this term is not a child of 'co-translational protein modification process ; GO:0043686' because co-translational protein modification implies modification of a previously incorporated amino acid in a nascent chain, rather than addition of new sequence to the C-terminus.