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Table 4 The amino acid substitution scores for different kinds of codon substitutions

From: Frameshift and wild-type proteins are often highly similar because the genetic code and genomes were optimized for frameshift tolerance

Codon Substitution

Random

Frameshift

Interchangeable

FF

RF

Type of Codon Substitution

 All

4096

256

256

256

 Unchanged (%)

64 (1.6%)

4 (1.6%)

4 (1.6%)

64 (25%)

 Changed (%)

4032 (98.4%)

252 (98.4%)

252 (98.4%)

192 (75%)

 SS (%)

230 (5.6%)

14 (5.5%)

14 (5.5%)

192 (75%)

 NSS-Positive (%)

859 (20.1%)

76 (29.7%)

76 (29.7%)

40 (15.6%)

 NSS-Negative (%)

3007 (73.4%)

166 (64.8%)

166 (64.8%)

24 (9.4%)

Average Substitution Score

 BLOSSUM62

−1.29

−0.61

−0.65

3.77

 PAM250

−4.26

−0.84

−0.84

3.68

 GON250

−10.81

−1.78

−1.78

35.60

  1. SS/NSS Synonymous/nonsynonymous substitution, FF/RF Forward/reverse frameshift substitutions