Codon usage bias from tRNA's point of view: Redundancy, specialization, and efficient decoding for translation optimization

Table 1.

Most frequent anticodon for each amino acid
N
AC
MF
P
Met 1 CAU 102 102
Trp 1 CCA 102 102
Ile 3 GAU 97 101
Asn 2 GUU 102 102
Asp 2 GUC 102 102
Cys 2 GCA 102 102
His 2 GUG 102 102
Phe 2 GAA 102 102
Tyr 2 GUA 102 102
Glu 2 UUC 98 102
Gln 2 UUG 98 101
Lys 2 UUU 97 102
Ala 4 UGC 98 102
Gly 4 GCC 93 101
Val 4 UAC 97 102
Pro 4 UGG 99 102
Thr 4 UGU 95 102
Arg2 2 UCU 60 102
Arg4 4 ACG 87 91
Ser2 2 GCU 77 102
Ser4 4 UGA 90 99
Leu2 2 UAA 70 100
Leu4
4
UAG
71
102

  • The anticodon (AC) is the (or among the, if there are ties) most frequent anticodons in MF genomes and present in P genomes. Amino acids with more than N>4 codons were split into codon boxes.

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  1. Published in Advance October 12, 2004, doi: 10.1101/gr.2896904 Genome Res. 14: 2279-2286

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