Codon Tables

	       	        Third Position

                       A      C      G      U
                 _____________________________
             AA  |    Lys    Asn    Lys    Asn
        F    AC  |    Thr    Thr    Thr    Thr
        i    AG  |    Arg    Ser    Arg    Ser
        r    AU  |    Ile    Ile    MET    Ile
        s P  CA  |    Gln    His    Gln    His
        t o  CC  |    Pro    Pro    Pro    Pro
          s  CG  |    Arg    Arg    Arg    Arg
        & i  CU  |    Leu    Leu    Leu    Leu
          t  GA  |    Glu    Asp    Glu    Asp
        S i  GC  |    Ala    Ala    Ala    Ala
        e o  GG  |    Gly    Gly    Gly    Gly
        c n  GU  |    Val    Val    Val    Val
        o    UA  |     .     Tyr     .     Tyr
        n    UC  |    Ser    Ser    Ser    Ser
        d    UG  |     .     Cys    Trp    Cys
             UU  |    Leu    Phe    Leu    Phe


Another way to look at this is:

3 Letter 1 Letter DNA codons for each Amino Acids NAME Abbreviation Abbreviation Alanine Ala A GCA,GCC,GCG,GCU Cysteine Cys C UGC,UGU Aspartic Acid Asp D GAC,GAU Glutamic Acid Glu E GAA,GAG Phenylalanine Phe F UUC,UUU Glycine Gly G GGA,GGC,GGG,GGU Histidine His H CAC,CAU Isoleucine Ile I AUA,AUC,AUU Lysine Lys K AAA,AAG Leucine Leu L UUA,UUG,CUA,CUC,CUG,CUU Methionine Met M AUG Asparagine Asn N AAC,AAU Proline Pro P CCA,CCC,CCG,CCU Glutamine Gln Q CAA,CAG Arginine Arg R CGA,CGC,CGG,CGU Serine Ser S UCA,UCC,UCG,UCU,AGC,AGU Threonine Thr T ACA,ACC,ACG,ACU Valine Val V GUA,GUC,GUG,GUU Tryptophan Trp W UGG Tyrosine Tyr Y UAC,UAU Stop Codons . UAA,UAG,UGA An example of the multiple combinations of DNA possible for a single peptide is an example of spelling my first name (without a termination codon): So to code for 'MARK' there would be 16 combinations, other sequences of 4 letters would vary in the number of possibilities based on the number of codons that could code for a single amino acid. Some amino acids have unto 6 codons that will be translated into a single Amino Acid. M A R K M A R K M A R K M A R K MET Ala Arg Lys MET Ala Arg Lys MET Ala Arg Lys MET Ala Arg Lys =============== =============== =============== =============== AUG-GCU-AGA-AAG AUG-GCU-AGG-AAG AUG-GCU-AGA-AAA AUG-GCU-AGG-AAA AUG-GCG-AGA-AAG AUG-GCG-AGG-AAG AUG-GCG-AGA-AAA AUG-GCG-AGG-AAA AUG-GCC-AGA-AAG AUG-GCC-AGG-AAG AUG-GCC-AGA-AAA AUG-GCC-AGG-AAA AUG-GCA-AGA-AAG AUG-GCA-AGG-AAG AUG-GCA-AGA-AAA AUG-GCA-AGG-AAA

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