most common amino acid?

[Tyson]

I believe it is Leu....although I don't have any references to back this
up....
I assume this only because tritiated K is used as an accurate measure of
protein synthesis in a cell and the fact that it has the most redundant
codon usage.
...i could be wrong though

Andrea Beckel-Mitchener, PhD <amitch at uiuc.edu> wrote in message
news:3835E08B.ECE43A14 at uiuc.edu...
| Does anyone know which amino acid is found in the most abundance in
| proteins?  A good guess might be leucine due to the fact that it is
| coded for by 6 codons in the genetic code, however, this would assume
| that a gene's sequence is completely random.  Any other notions?
|
| Andrea
|