Calculating the Secrets of Life Contributions of the Mathematical Sciences to Molecular Biology (1995) / Chapter Skim
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What can be inferred about the function of a new protein on the basis of its amino acid sequence? Can one discern the reactions it catalyzes or the molecules it binds?
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Sequence comparison is of tremendous interest to molecular biologists because it is becoming easy to determine DNA ant! protein sequences, whereas it remains difficult to determine molecular structure or Unction by experimental means.
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rRNAs are components of the macromolecular structure, called the ribosome, used for translating RNA sequences into protein sequences. tRNAs are the "adapter molecules" that read the genetic code, with an anticodon loop recognizing a particular codon at one end and an attachment site for the amino acid corresponding to this codon at the other.
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If the score distribution is consistent with that from comparison of random sequences, we would fad! to reject the statistical hypothesis and thus have evidence against the biological hypothesis.
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