Circular code motifs in transfer and 16S ribosomal RNAs: A possible translation code in genes

  • Authors:
  • Christian J. Michel

  • Affiliations:
  • Equipe de Bioinformatique Théorique, BFO, LSIIT (UMR 7005), Université de Strasbourg, Pôle API, Boulevard Sébastien Brant, 67400 Illkirch, France

  • Venue:
  • Computational Biology and Chemistry
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In 1996, a common trinucleotide circular code, called X, is identified in genes of eukaryotes and prokaryotes (Arques and Michel, 1996). This circular code X is a set of 20 trinucleotides allowing the reading frames in genes to be retrieved locally, i.e. anywhere in genes and in particular without start codons. This reading frame retrieval needs a window length l of 12 nucleotides (l=12). With a window length strictly less than 12 nucleotides (l