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Synonymous mutations and ribosome stalling can lead to altered folding pathways and distinct minima.
Journal of molecular biology - 7 Nov 2008
Tsai Chung-Jung, Sauna Zuben E, Kimchi-Sarfaty Chava, Ambudkar Suresh V, Gottesman Michael M, Nussinov Ruth
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How can we understand a case in which a given amino acid sequence folds into structurally and functionally distinct molecules? Synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the MDR1 (multidrug resistance 1 or ABCB1) gene involving frequent-to-rare codon substitutions lead to identical protein sequences. Remarkably, these alternative sequences give a protein product with similar but different structures and...
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