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On the statistical distribution of amino acid residue in randomly synthesized peptides
A R De O Cavalcanti1, R Ferreira
1Departamento de Química Fundamental, UFPE, Recife, Brasil.
Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciencias
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
The probability of randomly synthesized peptides having an excess of a given residue Ri (nRi > N/2; N = size of the peptide) decreases strongly with peptide size. For a strong specific interaction of a Ri, rich peptide with a given sequence of a ribotide chain, peptides should be reasonably large. We discuss how a compromise can be achieved that may have had an important role on the origin of the genetic code.