The hypercube structure of the genetic code explains conservative and non-conservative aminoacid substitutions in vivo and in vitro

BioSystems

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117-125

  Jiménez Montaño, Miguel A ^a   De La Mora Basánez, Carlos R ^b   Pöschel, Thorsten ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic code; In vitro and in vivo; Molecular evolution; Six dimensional Boolean hypercube

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CODON; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE;

EID: 0029784751     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-2647(96)01605-X     Document Type: Article

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