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Inverse table (compressed using IUPAC notation)

Amino

Codons

acid

Ala/A

Arg/R

GCT, GCC, GCA, GCG

CGT, CGC, CGA, CGG,


AGA, AGG

Compressed

Amino

Codons

acid

TTA, TTG, CTT, CTC,

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

CCT, CCC, CCA, CCG

CCN

Gln/Q

CAA, CAG

CAR

Ser/S

Glu/E

GAA, GAG

GAR

Thr/T

ACT, ACC, ACA, ACG

Gly/G

GGT, GGC, GGA, GGG

GGN

Trp/W

TGG

His/H

CAT, CAC

CAY

Tyr/Y

TAT, TAC

TAY

ATT, ATC, ATA

ATH

Val/V

GTT, GTC, GTA, GTG

GTN

STOP

TAA, TGA, TAG

TAR, TRA

Ile/I

START

ATG

TCT, TCC, TCA, TCG,


AGT, AGC

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.

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