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. 2016 Jul 4;44(14):6649–6659. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw593

Table 4. Codons corresponding to FCBS-enriched sequence motifs.

Codon Amino acid FCBS-enriched sequences AA category
GAC Asp / D one of two codons acidic
UAU Tyr / Y both codons aromatic
UAC Tyr / Y both codons aromatic
TGG Trp / W only codon aromatic
GGA Gly / G one of four codons small

Notes:

Phe/F is the only aromatic amino acid not encoded by FCBS-enriched sequence motifs. Phe/F codons are UUU and UUC.

TGG (Trp/W) is the least abundant of all vertebrate codons. TAT and TAC (Tyr/Y) are also low-abundance codons.