THE EFFECTS OF NUCLEOTIDE SUBSTITUTION ON AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION

The aim of the work consists of modeling Dayhoff matrix from the experimentally estimated matrix of nucleotide substitutions. The close resemblance observed between the Dayhoff matrix and the modeling matrix suggests that frequencies of transitions and transversions in genome determine the frequencies of amino acids substitutions. The substitutions apparently are not a consequence of selection of interchangeable amino acids substitutions.