Comprehensive reduction of amino acid set in a protein suggests the importance of prebiotic amino acids for stable proteins
Abstract Modern organisms commonly use the same set of 20 genetically coded amino acids for protein synthesis with very few exceptions. However, earlier protein synthesis was plausibly much simpler than modern one and utilized only a limited set of amino acids. Nevertheless, few experimental tests o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Scientific Reports |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19561-1 |