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Space-filling molecular models have been used to examine structural analogies between amino acids and nucleic acids. The three-dimensional structures of amino acidR groups appear to be stereochemically related to cavities formed by removal of single bases in double helical nucleic acids. The common L amino acids may thus be complementary to their codons.
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Hendry, L.B., Bransome, E.D. & Petersheim, M. Are there structural analogies between amino acids and nucleic acids?. Origins Life Evol Biosphere 11, 203–221 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00931386
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