CHEM564 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: World Federation Of Trade Unions, Molecular Mimicry, Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America
2 May 2017
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Primary source material: chapter 29 of biochemistry berg, jeremy m. ; tymoczko, john l. ; and stryer, lubert (courtesy of the ncbi bookshelf, molecular cell biology lodish, harvey; berk, arnold; zipursky, s. lawrence; matsudaira, I highly recommend browsing the molecule of the month series at the pdb (http://www. pdb. org/pdb/101/ motm_archive. do) Accessexcellence: the national health museum graphics gallery: the genetic code is the relation between the sequence of bases in dna (or its rna transcripts) and the sequence of amino acids in proteins. Sydney brenner, and others established the following features of the genetic code by 1961: three nucleotides encode an amino acid. Proteins are built from a basic set of 20 amino acids. Simple calculations show that a minimum of three bases is required to encode 20 amino acids. An amino acid is encoded by a group of three bases, or codon: the code is nonoverlapping. Abc speci es the rst amino acid, bcd the next, cde the next, and so on.
