A common periodic table of codons and amino acids

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 306, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 408-415

  Biro, J C ^a,b   Benyo B ^c   Sansom, C ^d   Szlavecz A ^e   Fordos G ^e   Micsik, T ^e   Benyo Z ^e  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Homulus Informatics   (United States)

^c SZÉCHENYI ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Charge; Codon; Genetic code; Hydrophobicity; Nucleic acid; Periodic table; Polarity; Protein; Translation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE DERIVATIVE; LYSINE DERIVATIVE; NUCLEIC ACID; PHENYLALANINE DERIVATIVE; PROLINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CODON; GENETIC CODE; HYDROPHOBICITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIODICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOP CODON;

EID: 0037532606     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(03)00974-4     Document Type: Article

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