Re: AA composition, (was blank)

Paul Morrison (morrison@farber.harvard.edu)
Sat, 07 Feb 1998 10:15:43 -0500

Laurey Steinke wrote:
>
> Hello all, Is there a way to get an amino acid analysis composition in
> molar % for known proteins (without sitting down and counting the amino
> acids and doing a tally?) I have gcg but can't seem to find such a thing.

Laurey,

Not positive if this is the number you want but you can take the codon
usage tables that Mike Cherry generated in '92 using GCG found here:

ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/codonusage/

and then just tally the codons to amino acid. Taking the easiest one
codon amino acid trp in humans you get:

AmAcid Codon Number /1000 Fraction ..
Trp TGG 8820.00 14.74 1.00

or % 1.47 of the AA's in human are trp.

Mike did it in 1992 but I would bet the drift since the genome explosion
would not be significant for the animals in these tables with a large
number of genes in the table in '92.
Then again someone should have a more current table out on the web with
codons already tallied.

hope this helps, Paul

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Paul Morrison
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