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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Main Authors: Rei Shibue, Takahiro Sasamoto, Masami Shimada, Bowen Zhang, Akihiko Yamagishi, Satoshi Akanuma
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/27ba848811f4442eb9aeddd3bf347fd8
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