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. 2008 Apr;100(4):339-40.
doi: 10.1038/hdy.2008.7. Epub 2008 Feb 13.

Whence the genetic code? Thawing the 'frozen accident'

C W Carter Jr

Whence the genetic code? Thawing the 'frozen accident'

C W Carter Jr. Heredity (Edinb). 2008 Apr.
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Figure 1
Potential palindromes in the tRNA anticodon loop and the latent, complementarity-based subcode for aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase recognition of tRNA. Four possible configurations of two anticodon bases at the level of purine vs pyrimidine (bold face) are paired together with complementary anticodons and colored (blue => red) according to increasing vulnerability to misreading. Two successive purines or pyrimidines are unlikely to be confused with their complements. Alternating purine/pyrimidine dinucleotides in the anticodon are quite likely to be confused, as indicated by the yellow dashed lines (Adapted from Rodin and Rodin, 2008; Figures 3, 4, and Table 3).
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