An evolutionary model of a complementary circular code

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 241-253

  Arqués, Didier G ^a   Fallot, Jean Paul ^b   Michel, Christian J ^b,c  

^a Université de Marne la Vallée   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE BELFORT MONTBÉLIARD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031582049     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0305     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. ARQUÈS, D. G. & MICHEL, C. J. (1987). A purine-pyrimidine motif verifying an identical presence in almost all gene taxonomic groups. J. theor. Biol. 128, 457-461.
2. ARQUÈS, D. G. & MICHEL, C. J. (1990). A model of DNA sequence evolution, Part 1: Statistical features and classification of gene populations, Part 2: Simulation model, Part 3: Return of the model to the reality. Bull. Math. Biol. 52, 741-772.
3. ARQUÈS, D. G. & MICHEL, C. J. (1992). A simulation of the genetic periodicities modulo 2 and 3 with processes of nucleotide insertions and deletions. J. theor. Biol. 156, 113-127.
4. ARQUÈS, D. G. & MICHEL, C. J. (1993). Identification and simulation of new non-random statistical properties common to different eukaryotic gene subpopulations. Biochimie 75, 399-407.
5. ARQUÈS, D. G. & MICHEL, C. J. (1994). Analytical expression of the purine/pyrimidine autocorrelation function after and before random mutations. Math. Biosc. 123, 103-125.
6. ARQUÈS, D. G. & MICHEL, C. J. (1996). A complementary circular code in the protein coding genes. J. theor. Biol., 182, 45-58.
7. BÉAL, M.-P. (1993). Codage Symbolique. Paris: Masson.
8. BÉLAND, P. & ALLEN, T. F. H. (1994). The origin and evolution of the genetic code. J. theor. Biol. 170, 359-365.
9. BENNE, R., VAN DEN BURG, J., BRAKENHOFF, J. P. J., SLOOF, P., VAN BOOM, J. H. & TROMP, M. C. (1986). Major transcript of the frameshifted coxII gene from trypanosome mitochondria contains four nucleotides that are not encoded in the DNA. Cell 46, 819-826.
10. BENNE, R. (1989). RNA-editing in trypanosome mitochondria. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1007, 131-139.
11. BERSTEL, J. & PERRIN, D. (1985). Theory of Codes. Academic Press.
12. BLAISDELL, B. E. (1983). A prevalent persistent nonrandomness that distinguishes coding and non-coding eukaryotic nuclear DNA sequences. J. Mol. Evol. 19, 122-133.
13. CRICK, F. H. C., GRIFFITH, J. S. & ORGEL, L. E. (1957). Codes without commas. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 43, 416-421.
14. CRICK, F. H. C., BRENNER, S., KLUG, A. & PIECZENIK, G. (1976). A speculation on the origin of protein synthesis. Origins of Life 7, 389-397.
15. DOUNCE, A. L. (1952). Duplicating mechanism for peptide chain and nucleic acid synthesis. Enzymologia 15, 251-258.
16. EIGEN, M. & SCHUSTER, P. (1978). The hypercycle. A principle of natural self-organization. Part C: The realistic hypercycle. Naturwissenschaften 65, 341-369.
17. FEAGIN, J. E. (1990). RNA editing in kinetoplastid mitochondria. J. Biol. Chem. 265, 19373-19376.
18. FICKETT, J. W. (1982). Recognition of protein coding regions in DNA sequences. Nucl. Acids Res. 10, 5303-5318.
19. JUKES, T. H. & BHUSHAN, V. (1986). Silent nucleotide substitutions and G + C content of some mitochondrial and bacterial genes. J. Mol. Evol. 24, 39-44.
20. KONECNY, J., ECKERT, M., SCHÖNIGER, M. & HOFACKER, G. L. (1993). Neutral adaptation of the genetic code to double-strand coding. J. Mol. Evol. 36, 407-416.
21. KONECNY, J., SCHÖNIGER, M. & HOFACKER, G. L. (1995). Complementary coding conforms to the primeval comma-less code. J. theor. Biol. 173, 263-270.
22. NIRENBERG, M. W. & MATTHAEI, J. H. (1961). The dependence of cell-free protein synthesis in E. coli upon naturally occurring or synthetic polyribonucleotides. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 47, 1588-1602.
23. SHEPHERD, J. C. W. (1981). Method to determine the reading frame of a protein from the purine/pyrimidine genome sequence and its possible evolutionary justification. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78, 1596-1600.
24. SHULMAN, M. J., STEINBERG, C. M. & WESTMORELAND, N. (1981). The coding function of nucleotide sequences can be discerned by statistical analysis. J. theor. Biol. 88, 409-420.
25. SIMPSON, L. (1990). RNA editing - A novel genetic phenomenon? Science 250, 512-513.
26. SMITH, T. F., WATERMAN, M. S. & SADLER, J. R. (1983). Statistical characterization of nucleic acid sequence functional domains. Nucl. Acids Res. 11, 2205-2220.
27. STADEN, R. & MCLACHLAN, A. D. (1982). Codon preference and its use in identifying protein coding regions in long DNA sequences. Nucl. Acids Res. 10, 141-156.
28. STUART, K. (1991). RNA editing in mitochondrial mRNA of trypanosomatids. Trends Biochem. Sci. 16, 68-72.
29. WATSON, J. D. & CRICK, F. H. C. (1953). A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature 111, 737-738.
30. ZULL, J. E. & SMITH, S. K. (1990). Is genetic code redundancy related to retention of structural information in both DNA strands? Trends Biochem. Sci. 15, 257-261.