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SUBMITTER: Bragg JG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1810051 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bragg Jason G JG Hyder Charles L CL
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20040801
There is growing recognition that the elemental composition of genomes and proteins can be related to resource limitation. We examine the possibility that the elemental composition of nucleic acids and the amino acids (and proteins) they encode are correlated. We report a positive association between the stoichiometric ratio of N/C content of individual amino acids and their codons. Potentially, this is an outcome of chemical interactions between amino acids and anticodons that influenced the ev ...[more]