Biology:Pachysolen tannophilus nuclear code

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Short description: An alternative genetic code found in the nuclear genome of some yeasts


The pachysolen tannophilus nuclear code (translation table 26) is a genetic code found in the ascomycete fungus Pachysolen tannophilus.[1]

Code

   AAs = FFLLSSSSYY**CC*WLLLAPPPPHHQQRRRRIIIMTTTTNNKKSSRRVVVVAAAADDEEGGGG
Starts = -------------------M---------------M----------------------------
 Base1 = TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
 Base2 = TTTTCCCCAAAAGGGGTTTTCCCCAAAAGGGGTTTTCCCCAAAAGGGGTTTTCCCCAAAAGGGG
 Base3 = TCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAG

Bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T) or uracil (U).

Amino acids: Alanine (Ala, A), Arginine (Arg, R), Asparagine (Asn, N), Aspartic acid (Asp, D), Cysteine (Cys, C), Glutamic acid (Glu, E), Glutamine|Glutamine (Gln, Q), Glycine (Gly, G), [[Chemistry:Histidine|Histidine]] (His, H), [[Chemistry:Isoleucine (Ile, I), [[Chemistry:Leucine|Leucine]] (Leu, L), Lysine (Lys, K), Methionine (Met, M), Phenylalanine (Phe, F), Proline (Pro, P), Serine (Ser, S), Threonine (Thr, T), Tryptophan (Trp, W), Tyrosine|Tyrosine|Tyrosine|Tyrosine (Tyr, Y), Valine (Val, V)

Differences from the standard code

DNA codons RNA codons This code (26) Standard code (1)
CTG CUG Ala (A) Leu (L)

Initiation codons

This code uses the initiation codons AUG, GUG and UUG.

Systematic range and comments

See also

References

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain. [2]

  1. Mühlhausen, Stefanie; Findeisen, Peggy; Plessmann, Uwe; Urlaub, Henning; Kollmar, Martin (2016). "A novel nuclear genetic code alteration in yeasts and the evolution of codon reassignment in eukaryotes" (in en). Genome Research 26 (7): 945–955. doi:10.1101/gr.200931.115. ISSN 1088-9051. PMID 27197221. 
  2. Elzanowski, Andrzej; Ostell, Jim; Leipe, Detlef; Soussov, Vladimir. "The Genetic Codes". Taxonomy browser. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/index.cgi?chapter=tgencodes#thetop.