WATER, PROTEIN FOLDING, AND THE GENETIC-CODE

被引:173
作者
WOLFENDEN, RV
CULLIS, PM
SOUTHGATE, CCF
机构
[1] Department of Biochemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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10.1126/science.493962
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The absolute affinities of amino acid side chains for solvent water closely match their relative distributions between the surface and the interior of native proteins and are associated with a remarkable bias in the genetic code. Copyright © 1979 AAAS.
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页码:575 / 577
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