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Amino
Codons
acid
Ala/A
Arg/R
Compressed
Amino
Codons
acid
GCN
Leu/L
CGN, MGR
Lys/K
AAA, AAG
CTA, CTG
Compressed
YTR, CTN
AAR
Asn/N
AAT, AAC
AAY
Met/M
ATG
Asp/D
GAT, GAC
GAY
Phe/F
TTT, TTC
TTY
Cys/C
TGT, TGC
TGY
Pro/P
CCN
Gln/Q
CAA, CAG
CAR
Ser/S
Glu/E
GAA, GAG
GAR
Thr/T
Gly/G
GGN
Trp/W
TGG
His/H
CAT, CAC
CAY
Tyr/Y
TAT, TAC
TAY
ATH
Val/V
GTN
STOP
TAR, TRA
Ile/I
START
ATG
TCN, AGY
ACN
AminoAcid
SLC
DNAcodons
Isoleucine
ATT,ATC,ATA
Leucine
CTT,CTC,CTA,CTG,TTA,TTG
Valine
GTT,GTC,GTA,GTG
Phenylalanine
TTT,TTC
Methionine
ATG
Cysteine
TGT,TGC
Alanine
GCT,GCC,GCA,GCG
Glycine
GGT,GGC,GGA,GGG
Proline
CCT,CCC,CCA,CCG
Threonine
ACT,ACC,ACA,ACG
Serine
TCT,TCC,TCA,TCG,AGT,AGC
Tyrosine
TAT,TAC
Tryptophan
TGG
Glutamine
CAA,CAG
Asparagine
AAT,AAC
Histidine
CAT,CAC
Glutamicacid
GAA,GAG
Asparticacid
GAT,GAC
Lysine
AAA,AAG
Arginine
CGT,CGC,CGA,CGG,AGA,AGG
Stopcodons
Stop TAA,TAG,TGA
Inthistable,thetwentyaminoacidsfoundinproteinsarelisted,along
withthesinglelettercodeusedtorepresenttheseaminoacidsin
proteindatabases.TheDNAcodonsrepresentingeachaminoacidarealso
listed.All64possible3lettercombinationsoftheDNAcodingunitsT,
C,AandGareusedeithertoencodeoneoftheseaminoacidsorasone
ofthethreestopcodonsthatsignalstheendofasequence.WhileDNA
canbedecodedunambiguously,itisnotpossibletopredictaDNA
sequencefromitsproteinsequence.Becausemostaminoacidshave
multiplecodons,anumberofpossibleDNAsequencesmightrepresentthe
sameproteinsequence.