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Frequent occurrence of recognition site-like sequences in the restriction endonucleasesJan C Biro
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
BMC Bioinformatics 5:30. 2004..This question is fundamental to understand the nature of specific protein-nucleic acid interactions...
Protein folding information in nucleic acids which is not present in the genetic codeJan C Biro
Homulus Foundation, 88 Howard 1205, San Francisco, CA 94195, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1091:399-411. 2006....
Indications that "codon boundaries" are physico-chemically defined and that protein-folding information is contained in the redundant exon basesJan Charles Biro
Homulus Foundation, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Theor Biol Med Model 3:28. 2006..It is suspected that additional folding information is present in protein coding nucleic acid sequences, but this is not represented by the known genetic code...
Amino acid size, charge, hydropathy indices and matrices for protein structure analysisJ C Biro
Homulus Foundation, San Francisco, CA, USA
Theor Biol Med Model 3:15. 2006..It is believed that such prediction will prove possible if Anfinsen's thermodynamic principle is correct for all kinds of proteins, and all the information necessary to form a concrete 3D structure is indeed present in the sequence...
A novel intra-molecular protein-protein interaction code based on partial complementary coding of co-locating amino acidsJan C Biro
Homulus Foundation, 88 Howard, 1205, San Francisco, CA 94 105, USA
Med Hypotheses 66:137-42. 2006..Furthermore it might be useful even in protein design...
Nucleic acid chaperons: a theory of an RNA-assisted protein foldingJan C Biro
Homulus Foundation, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Theor Biol Med Model 2:35. 2005..It seems to be a logical to try to find the "missing" information in nucleic acids, in the redundant codon base...
SeqX: a tool to detect, analyze and visualize residue co-locations in protein and nucleic acid structuresJan C Biro
Homulus Foundation, San Francisco, CA 94105 1649, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 6:170. 2005..We developed a JAVA tool, called SeqX for this purpose...
Seven fundamental, unsolved questions in molecular biology. Cooperative storage and bi-directional transfer of biological information by nucleic acids and proteins: an alternative to "central dogma"J C Biro
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Med Hypotheses 63:951-62. 2004..The flow of information between nucleic acids and proteins is bi-directional and reverse translation might exist; 7. Complex genetic information is always carried and stored by nucleic acids and proteins together...
A novel sequence similarity searching and visualization method based on overlappingly translated nucleic acids: the blastNPJan C Biro
Homulus Informatics, 88 Howard, 1205, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Med Hypotheses 62:568-74. 2004..This novel method was proved to find significant sequence similarities which remained hidden for other methods and is a promising tool for further understanding (and annotating) the function of many old and new sequences...
In search of the nature of specific nucleic acid-protein interactionsJ C Biro
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Acta Physiol Hung 92:1-10. 2005..These results indicate that the smallest possible units of specific nucleic acid-protein interaction are indeed the stereochemically compatible codons and amino acids...
A common periodic table of codons and amino acidsJ C Biro
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 306:408-15. 2003..The table emphasizes the importance of the central nucleotide in the codons and predicts that purines control the charge while pyrimidines determine the polarity of the amino acids. This prediction was experimentally tested...
Speculations about alternative DNA structuresJan Charles Biro
Karolinska Institute and Homulus Informatics, Karlaplan, Sweden
Med Hypotheses 61:86-97. 2003..It is possible that a small portion of the total DNA, the transcribed, 'working DNA', might be built by this way...
