Simplification of the genetic code: Restricted diversity of genetically encoded amino acids

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 10576-10584

  Kawahara Kobayashi, Akio ^a   Masuda, Akiko ^b   Araiso, Yuhei ^c,d   Sakai, Yoko ^a   Kohda, Atsushi ^a   Uchiyama, Masahiko ^a   Asami, Shun ^a   Matsuda, Takayoshi ^b   Ishitani, Ryuichiro ^c   Dohmae, Naoshi ^b   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^b   Kigawa, Takanori ^a,b   Nureki, Osamu ^c   Kiga, Daisuke ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SERINE; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CODON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CODON; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RNA, TRANSFER, ALA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84869065274     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks786     Document Type: Article

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