Figure 23

Comparison of protein and corresponding mRNA structures (modified from [95]). Residue contact maps (RCM) were obtained from the PBD files of protein structures using the SeqX tool (left triangles). Energy dot-plots (EDP) for the coding sequences were obtained using the mfold tool (right triangles). The two kinds of maps were aligned along a common left diagonal axis to facilitate visual comparison of the different kinds of representation possible. The black dots in the RCMs indicate amino acids that are within 6 A of each other in the protein structure. The colored (grass-like) areas in the EDPs indicate the energetically mostly likely RNA interactions (color code in increasing order: yellow, green red, black).