What is it about?
Using novel advances in computational chemistry, we demonstrate that the set of 20 genetically encoded amino acids, used nearly universally to construct all coded terrestrial proteins, has been highly influenced by natural selection.
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This is unique work that confirmed a set of 20 genetically encoded amino acids that able to construct any possible known protein and many other.
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The study was based on cheminformatics approaches and high-throughput quantum chemical calculations of enthalpy of formation.
Professor Bakhtiyor Rasulev
North Dakota State University
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This page is a summary of: Extraordinarily Adaptive Properties of the Genetically Encoded Amino Acids, Scientific Reports, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1038/srep09414.
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