Keyword

genetic code

Description: The genetic code is the set of rules by which nucleotide sequences in genetic material specify amino acids during protein synthesis.

Primary topic: RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (49%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q180618

OpenAlex ID: keywords/genetic-code

Central Dogma of Molecular Biology

1970 · FRANCIS CRICK · Nature · 3,445

Application of a Theory of Enzyme Specificity to Protein Synthesis

1958 · D. E. Koshland · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2,402

Characterization of Mammalian Selenoproteomes

2003 · Gregory V. Kryukov, Sergi Castellano, et al. · Science · 2,352

Kinetic Proofreading: A New Mechanism for Reducing Errors in Biosynthetic Processes Requiring High Specificity

1974 · J. J. Hopfield · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1,594

The mitochondrial DNA molecule ofDrosophila yakuba: Nucleotide sequence, gene organization, and genetic code

1985 · Douglas O. Clary, David R. Wolstenholme · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 1,520

Degeneracy and complexity in biological systems

2001 · Gerald M. Edelman, Joseph A. Gally · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1,487

TranslatorX: multiple alignment of nucleotide sequences guided by amino acid translations

2010 · Federico Abascal, Rafael Zardoya, et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 1,486

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Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthesis

2000 · Michael Ibba, Dieter Söll · Annual Review of Biochemistry · 1,459

Frameshift Mutations and the Genetic Code

1966 · G. Streisinger, Y. Okada, et al. · Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology · 1,400

General Nature of the Genetic Code for Proteins

1961 · F. H. C. CRICK, LESLIE BARNETT, et al. · Nature · 1,391

Molecules as documents of evolutionary history

1965 · Emile Zuckerkandl, Linus Pauling · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 1,350

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

2016 · Madeline C. Weiss, Filipa L. Sousa, et al. · Nature Microbiology · 1,044

Pseudouridine profiling reveals regulated mRNA pseudouridylation in yeast and human cells

2014 · Thomas M. Carlile, Maria F. Rojas-Duran, et al. · Nature · 1,025

Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Catalogs of Autosomal Dominant, Autosomal Recessive, and X-Linked Phenotypes.

1967 · Annals of Internal Medicine · 970

Ion motive ATPases. I. Ubiquity, properties, and significance to cell function

1987 · Peter L. Pedersen, Ernesto Carafoli · Trends in Biochemical Sciences · 962

Natural Selection and the Concept of a Protein Space

1970 · JOHN MAYNARD SMITH · Nature · 925

Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems

2013 · Andreas Wagner · Princeton University Press eBooks · 882

Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology

1972 · Bertram Morris, Jacques Monod, et al. · Technology and Culture · 808

Who Wrote the Book of Life?

2000 · Lily E. Kay · Stanford University Press eBooks · 783

Universal rules and idiosyncratic features in tRNA identity

1998 · R. Giege, M. Sissler, et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 769

Choosing Appropriate Substitution Models for the Phylogenetic Analysis of Protein-Coding Sequences

2005 · Beth Shapiro, Andrew Rambaut, et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 751

Synthetic oligonucleotide probes deduced from amino acid sequence data

1985 · R. Lathe · Journal of Molecular Biology · 751

Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases, the Genetic Code, and the Evolutionary Process

2000 · Carl R. Woese, Gary J. Olsen, et al. · Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews · 704

Who wrote the book of life?: a history of the genetic code

2000 · Choice Reviews Online · 693

In Vitro Synthesis of Protein in Microbial Systems

1973 · Geoffrey Zubay · Annual Review of Genetics · 692

Works count: 7,403

Citation count: 119,600