The case for an error minimizing set of coding amino acids

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 244, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 737-744

  Torabi, Noorossadat ^a   Goodarzi, Hani ^b   Shateri Najafabadi, Hamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetases; Evolution; Fitness function; Genetic code; Molecular volumes of amino acids; Translational fidelity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ENZYME; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID; ERROR ANALYSIS; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; RNA;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACIDS; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846444704     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.09.021     Document Type: Article

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