Amino acid composition of proteins reduces deleterious impact of mutations

S Hormoz - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
The evolutionary origin of amino acid occurrence frequencies in proteins (composition) is
not yet fully understood. We suggest that protein composition works alongside the genetic …

Optimisation of asymmetric mutational pressure and selection pressure around the universal genetic code

P Mackiewicz, P Biecek, D Mackiewicz, J Kiraga… - International Conference …, 2008 - Springer
One of hypotheses explaining the origin of the genetic code assumes that its evolution has
minimised the deleterious effects of mutations in coded proteins. To estimate the level of …

Correspondence between mutation and selection pressure and the genetic code degeneracy in the gene evolution

M Dudkiewicz, P Mackiewicz, A Nowicka… - Future Generation …, 2005 - Elsevier
There are three main elements deciding about the effect of mutations on the protein coding
sequences—the type of the substitution of nucleotide, the selection for the function of the …

Integrating mRNA and Protein Sequencing Enables the Detection and Quantitative Profiling of Natural Protein Sequence Variants of Populus trichocarpa

PE Abraham, X Wang, P Ranjan… - Journal of Proteome …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Next-generation sequencing has transformed the ability to link genotypes to phenotypes and
facilitates the dissection of genetic contribution to complex traits. However, it is challenging …

The effect of a Pro28Thr point mutation on the local structure and stability of human galactokinase enzyme—a theoretical study

B Jójárt, M Szőri, R Izsák, I Marsi, A László… - Journal of molecular …, 2011 - Springer
Galactokinase is responsible for the phosphorylation of α-d-galactose, which is an important
step in the metabolism of the latter. Malfunctioning of galactokinase due to a single point …

Amino acids exchange in patients with CKD as obtained via exome sequencing differ radically from those of natural variants 1000 genome and genomAD databases

F Fazaludeen, F Saglam - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Background: Nonsynonymous mutations in the coding regions of human genes are
responsible for phenotypic differences between humans and for their susceptibility to …

Integrating and accessing medical data resources within the ViroLab virtual laboratory

M Assel, P Nowakowski, M Bubak - … , Kraków, Poland, June 23-25, 2008 …, 2008 - Springer
This paper presents the data access solutions which have been developed in the ViroLab
Virtual Laboratory infrastructure to enable medical researchers and practitioners to conduct …

To understand nature-computer modeling between genetics and evolution

D Mackiewicz, S Cebrat - From Genetics To Mathematics, 2009 - World Scientific
We present the basic knowledge on the structure of molecules coding the genetic
information, mechanisms of transfer of this information from DNA to proteins and …

Representation of mutation pressure and selection pressure by PAM matrices

A Nowicka, P Mackiewicz, M Dudkiewicz… - Applied …, 2004 - Springer
This paper analyses the relationship between the mutation data matrix 1PAM/PET91,
representing the effect of both mutation and selection pressures exerted on 16 130 …

[PDF][PDF] Mutational and selective mechanisms sha** large-scale organization and evolution of chromosomes

M Kowalczuk, D Mackiewicz, P Mackiewicz, N Polak… - 2005 - open.icm.edu.pl
Sequencing projects provide a lot of information on genome structure, organization and
evolution. Whole-genome analyses reveal large biases in nucleotide composition of genes …