Abstract The frequency of amino acid replacements in families of typical proteins has been elegantly analyzed by Argyle (1980) showing that the most frequent replacements involve a conservation of the amino acid chemical properties. The cyclic arrangement of the twenty amino acids resulting from the most frequent replacements has been described as an amino acid chemical ring. In this work, a novel amino acid replacement frequency ring is proposed, for which a conservation of over 90% of the most general physico-chemical properties can be deduced. The amino acid chemical similarity ring is also analyzed in terms of the genetic code base probability changes, showing that the discrepancy that exists between the standard deviation value of the amino acid replacement frequency matrix and its respective ideal value is almost equal to that deduced from the corresponding base codon replacement probability matrices. These differences are finally evaluated and discussed in terms of the restrictions imposed by the structure of the genetic code and the physico-chemical dissimilarities between some codons of amino acids which are chemically similar.


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    Title :

    Code dependent conservation of the physicochemical properties in amino acid substitutions


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    Publication date :

    1983




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    44.71 Verkehrsmedizin
    Local classification TIB:    535/3908/4290



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