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Interactions between trinucleotides: The electrostatic contribution and its possible relation to the mechanism of translation of the genetic code
Author(s) -
Nash H. A.,
Bradley D. F.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
biopolymers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.556
H-Index - 125
eISSN - 1097-0282
pISSN - 0006-3525
DOI - 10.1002/bip.360030304
Subject(s) - chemistry , genetic code , stacking , mechanism (biology) , translation (biology) , rna , transfer rna , relation (database) , hydrogen bond , chemical physics , messenger rna , dna , physics , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , gene , molecule , organic chemistry , database , computer science
The coulombic interaction between pairs of trinucleotides has been computed from quantum theory. The results are discussed in terms of their relation to hydrogen bonds and stacking in such systems and to the mechanism by which messenger RNA codons recognize transfer RNA nodocs.