Relationship between whole proteome aminoacid composition and static DNA curvature

Microb Comp Genomics. 2000;5(1):7-15. doi: 10.1089/10906590050145221.

Abstract

To study possible relationships between an organism's genomic DNA curvature and the aminoacid composition of its proteome, every peptidic sequence from fully determined genomes was retrotranslated using the E. coli codon preferences, and the curvature profiles of the resulting DNA sequences were calculated and compared. A clear interdependence between these two variables was observed, as each retrotranslated proteome presented a distinctive, statistically significant DNA curvature profile biased toward its natural DNA curvature profile. In addition, by comparing the profiles arising from real and randomly permuted proteomes, we also found a position-dependent contribution of the peptidic sequence to DNA curvature. The implications of these results support the idea of a possible selection toward a specific global curvature of genomes.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acids / analysis*
  • Computational Biology
  • DNA / chemistry*
  • Genome
  • Nucleic Acid Conformation
  • Proteome / chemistry*
  • Species Specificity

Substances

  • Amino Acids
  • Proteome
  • DNA