Silent Code (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania

Silent Code

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β-actin and γ-actin are nearly identical proteins, differing by only four amino acids (in red). But they contain many more differences in their nucleotide sequence, and this "silent code" is responsible distinct functions of the two proteins, the researchers found.

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