From amino acid landscape to protein landscape: Analysis of genetic codes in terms of fitness landscape

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 313-323

  Aita, Takuyo ^a,b   Urata, Satoshi ^a   Husimi, Yuzuru ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA K K   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive walk; Codon; Evolutionary molecular engineering; Evolvability; Mutational robustness; Standard genetic code

Indexed keywords

M PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

EID: 0033935358     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/pl00020999     Document Type: Article

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