The Proteomic Code: a molecular recognition code for proteins.
BACKGROUND
The Proteomic Code is a set of rules by which information in genetic material is transferred into the physico-chemical properties of amino acids. It determines how individual amino acids interact with each other during folding and in specific protein-protein interactions. The Proteomic Code is part of the redundant Genetic Code.


METHODS
The 25-year-old history of this concept is reviewed from the first independent suggestions by Biro and Mekler, through the works of Blalock, Root-Bernstein, Siemion, Miller and others, followed by the discovery of a Common Periodic Table of Codons and Nucleic Acids in 2003 and culminating in the recent conceptualization of partial complementary coding of interacting amino acids as well as the theory of the nucleic acid-assisted protein folding.


CONCLUSIONS
A novel cloning method for the design and production of specific, high-affinity-reacting proteins (SHARP) is presented. This method is based on the concept of proteomic codes and is suitable for large-scale, industrial production of specifically interacting peptides.
Biro
Jan C
JC
Homulus Foundation, 88 Howard, #1205, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. jan.biro@comcast.net
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003062:Codon / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005815:Genetic Code; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D011485:Protein Binding; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017510:Protein Folding; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D040901:Proteomics / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D013816:Thermodynamics
D000596:Amino Acids; D003062:Codon; D011506:Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012313:RNA