单词 | amino acid alphabet |
释义 | > as lemmasamino acid alphabet 7. The set of nucleotides (or their constituent nucleosides or bases) from which nucleic acid molecules are composed, the sequence of which is the means of encoding and storing genetic information. Also (more fully amino acid alphabet, protein alphabet): the set of twenty amino acids from which the proteins of most living organisms are composed.In most organisms, the set of nucleotides comprises those formed from the purine and pyrimidine bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine (in DNA), and uracil (in RNA). ΚΠ 1954 G. Gamow in Nature 13 Feb. 318/2 The enzymes..are long peptide chains formed by about twenty different kinds of amino acids, and can be considered as long ‘words’ based on a 20-letter alphabet.] 1956 Radiation Res. 5 146 His [sc. Gamow's] basic idea—that the problem is one of recoding the genetical information from a four-letter alphabet to a twenty-letter one—is ingenious. 1970 Currents Mod. Biol. 3 260/2 The transfer RNA molecules are adaptors which bind specifically to a code word in the nucleic acid alphabet and to an amino acid in the protein alphabet. 1993 Discover Aug. 23/1,24/1 Benner's group thought that nature's alphabet might be extended. So they designed another base pair, k (kappa) and X, to fit into the double helix. 2006 Time 9 Oct. 48/2 What causes changes..is random mutation, in which individual base pairs—the ‘letters’ of the genetic alphabet—are flipped around like a typographical error. < as lemmas |
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