Chapter 24, Problem 13EQ

Summary Introduction

To review:

The amino acids 101 to 148 of globin polypeptides and answer the following:

A. The amino acids that are most important for the function and structure of globin. Also, the reason for the same.

B. The amino acids that are least important.

Introduction:

Sequence alignment is the alignment of two sequences of nucleic acids/proteins along their length. This alignment reveals important features like regions of similarity and regions of dissimilarity. Different softwares used for sequence alignment are BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), Clustal, and MUSCLE (Multiple Sequence Comparison by Log-Expectation).