Error Minimization and Coding Triplet/Binding Site Associations Are Independent Features of the Canonical Genetic Code |
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Authors: | J Gregory Caporaso Michael Yarus Rob Knight |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Mail Stop 8303, P.O. Box 6511, Aurora, CO 80045, USA;(2) Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Campus Box 347, CO 80309, USA;(3) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Campus Box 215, CO 80309, USA |
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Abstract: | The canonical genetic code has been reported both to be error minimizing and to show stereochemical associations between coding
triplets and binding sites. In order to test whether these two properties are unexpectedly overlapping, we generated 200,000
randomized genetic codes using each of five randomization schemes, with and without randomization of stop codons. Comparison
of the code error (difference in polar requirement for single-nucleotide codon interchanges) with the coding triplet concentrations
in RNA binding sites for eight amino acids shows that these properties are independent and uncorrelated. Thus, one is not
the result of the other, and error minimization and triplet associations probably arose independently during the history of
the genetic code. We explicitly show that prior fixation of a stereochemical core is consistent with an effective later minimization
of error.
Reviewing Editor : Dr. Stephen Freeland] |
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Keywords: | Genetic code Stereochemistry Adaptation Error minimization Aptamers SELEX |
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