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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-9-29
pubmed:abstractText
The hypothesis that synonymous codon usage is related to protein three-dimensional structure is examined by investigating the correlation between synonymous codon usage and protein secondary structure. All except two codons in E. coli show the same secondary structural preference for alpha-helix, beta-strand or coil as that of amino acids to be encoded by the respective codons, while 17 codons show secondary structural bias in mammalian proteins. The results indicate that there is no significant correlation between synonymous codon usage and protein secondary structure in E. coli, but there is a correlation in mammals. It could be deduced that synonymous codons carry much less structural information in prokaryotes than in eukaryotes due to their divergent evolutionary mechanism.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0014-5793
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
28
pubmed:volume
434
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
93-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
The relationship between synonymous codon usage and protein structure.
pubmed:affiliation
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Academia Sinica, People's Republic of China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article