title: A song in praise of peptide palindromes.
abstract: Peptide palindromes are invariably found in all proteins, and long palindromes exceeding 10 residues in length are not rare. They are particularly abundant in DNA-binding proteins such as H1 histone. When a complementary strand of the coding sequence is translatable being free of a chain terminator, a complementary protein encode by it becomes equally abundant in peptide palindromes. The simultaneous musical transformation of both strands of mouse H1 histone variety-1 DNA enable us to appreciate the symmetrical beauty of successive palindromes appearing in both H1 histone and its complementary protein.
authors.affiliation: Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010-0269.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ohno
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D003062:Codon / Q000737:chemistry; D006657:Histones / Q000737:chemistry*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009146:Music; D016366:Open Reading Frames
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D006657:Histones