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Science 16 March 1990:
Vol. 247. no. 4948, pp. 1306 - 1310
DOI: 10.1126/science.2315699
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Science, Vol 247, Issue 4948, 1306-1310
Copyright © 1990 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Deciphering the message in protein sequences: tolerance to amino acid substitutions

JU Bowie, JF Reidhaar-Olson, WA Lim, and RT Sauer

Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.

An amino acid sequence encodes a message that determines the shape and function of a protein. This message is highly degenerate in that many different sequences can code for proteins with essentially the same structure and activity. Comparison of different sequences with similar messages can reveal key features of the code and improve understanding of how a protein folds and how it performs its function.


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