We demonstrate the use of the Chlamydomonas chloroplast genome as a synthetic biology platform to test radical compression of the universal genetic code. Genome engineering was used to generate ...

We present an evolutionary hypothesis assuming that signals marking nucleotide synthesis (DNA replication and RNA transcription) evolved from multi- to unidimensional structures, and were carried over ...

Correspondence relations between codons and amino acids are determined by genetic code. Therefore, genetic code holds a key of the life system composed of genes and protein. According to the GNC-SNS ...

A codon is a set of three nucleotides in a sequence of DNA or RNA that corresponds to a specific amino acid. There are codon usage is degenerate as 64 different codons code for 20 amino acids. Thus ...

The genetic code has been dubbed ‘life’s greatest secret’. 1 The code relates a sequence of DNA nucleotide bases in a gene to that of amino acids in the protein that gene encodes. Each of the 20 amino ...

DNA is admired for its perfection as a programmable information molecule: it uses repeating polymerization chemistry to link four nucleotide building blocks (adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine) ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The ribosome brings 3′-aminoacyl-tRNA and 3′-peptidyl-tRNAs together to enable ...