Codon Table

The standard codon table is given below.

	UUU	F/Phe Phenylalanine	UCU	S/Ser Serine	UAU	Y/Tyr Tyrosine	UGU	C/Cys Cysteine
	UUC		UCC		UAC		UGC
	UUA	L/Leu Leucine	UCA		UAA	* Ochre Stop	UGA	* Opal Stop
	UUG		UCG		UAG	* Amber Stop	UGG	W/Trp Tryptophan
	CUU		CCU	P/Pro Proline	CAU	H/His Histidine	CGU	R/Arg Arginine
	CUC		CCC		CAC		CGC
	CUA		CCA		CAA	Q/Gln Glutamine	CGA
	CUG		CCG		CAG		CGG
	AUU	I/Ile Isoleucine	ACU	T/Thr Threonine	AAU	N/Asn Asparagine	AGU	S/Ser Serine
	AUC		ACC		AAC		AGC
	AUA		ACA		AAA	K/Lys Lysine	AGA	R/Arg Arginine
	AUG	M/Met Methionine	ACG		AAG		AGG
	GUU	V/Val Valine	GCU	A/Ala Alanine	GAU	D/Asp Aspartic acid	GGU	G/Gly Glycine
	GUC		GCC		GAC		GGC
	GUA		GCA		GAA	E/Glu Glutamic acid	GGA
	GUG		GCG		GAG		GGG

Cells are colored hydrophobic (blue) to hydrophilic (red) according to the order given in Lenstra 2015 and the HTML color code gradient (inverse HSV Gradient) was generated from http://www.perbang.dk/rgbgradient/.

The codon table is not universal. However, variants are similar to the standard table with very few changes.

Bacteria and phages can use alternative tables to defend against infection or promote viral replication.

Links

https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bio2.0/battle_of_the_genetic_codes

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6186/909

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/17/find-and-replace-across-an-entire-genome/

https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2017-07-26/how-scientists-redesign-dna-codes