Degeneracy of the Genetic Code and Stability of the Base Pair at the Second Position of the Anticodon

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Journal RNA

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2008 May 23

PMID 18495942

Citations 26

Authors

Jean Lehmann

Albert Libchaber

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Abstract

With an analysis of the structural constraints of the anticodon-codon interaction within the decoding center of the ribosome, we show that the extent of degeneracy at the third position of the anticodon is determined by the level of stability of the base pair at the second position.

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