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Quaternary protein modeling to predict the function of DNA variation found in human mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2013
Horan Martin Patrick, Rumbley Jon N, Melvin Richard G, Le Couteur David G, Ballard J William O
Abstract excerpt
Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) of the electron transport system is thought to be the rate-limiting step in cellular respiration and is found mutated in numerous human pathologies. Here, we employ quaternary three-dimensional (3-D) modeling to construct a model for human COX. The model was used to predict the functional consequences of amino-acid mutations based on phylogenetic conservation of amino acids together...
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