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The Coding of Biological Information: From Nucleotide Sequence to Protein Recognition

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The paper reviews the classic results of Swanson, Dayhoff, Grantham, Blalock and Root-Bernstein, which link genetic code nucleotide patterns to the protein structure, evolution and molecular recognition. Symbolic representation of the binary addresses defining particular nucleotide and amino acid properties is discussed, with consideration of: structure and metric of the code, direct correspondence between amino acid and nucleotide information, and molecular recognition of the interacting protein motifs coded by the complementary DNA and RNA strands.

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The support of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports is gratefully acknowledged (grant No. 098–0982929–2524).

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    Nikola Štambuk

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Štambuk, N. (2013). The Coding of Biological Information: From Nucleotide Sequence to Protein Recognition. In: Stavrinides, S., Banerjee, S., Caglar, S., Ozer, M. (eds) Chaos and Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33914-1_29

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