Hydrophobicity and aromaticity are primary factors shaping variation in amino acid usage of chicken proteome.

Amino acids are utilized with different frequencies both among species and among genes within the same genome. Up to date, no study on the amino acid usage pattern of chicken has been performed. In the present study, we carried out a systematic examination of the amino acid usage in the chicken prot...

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Main Authors: Yousheng Rao, Zhangfeng Wang, Xuewen Chai, Qinghua Nie, Xiquan Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4199684?pdf=render