Biology
210
GENETICS
20 March, 1998
Quiz
Consider the following partial amino acid sequence of a protein:
MTEVLRNSPYRCDISSLNSPDAEWRKVIFKAIDESLSKKMGRTQ
How would you go about finding the DNA sequence for this?
Link to today's
LECTURE notes if you're interested....
Hey! These sumptious worms might
have genetically modified! I guess we can't eat them. (too
bad!)
Single-letter
abbreviations of amino acids
A
ala alanine
B
asx asparagine or aspartic acid
C
cys cysteine
D
asp aspartic acid
E
glu glutamic acid
F
phe phenylalanine
G
gly glycine
H
his histidine
I
ile isoleucine
K
lys lysine
L
leu leucine
M
met methionine
N
asn asparagine
P
pro proline
Q
gln glutamine
R
arg arginine
S
ser serine
T
thr threonine
V
val valine
W
trp tryptophan
Y
tyr tyrosine
Z
glx glutamine or glutamic acid
The Genetic Code
as used by nearly all
eukaryotic nuclear genomes
To
get a nice, handy-dandy box like this:
use the following web site:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/BLAST/nph-newblast?Jform=0
To use this, all you have to do is paste in
your sequence (note: for PROTEINS, use "BlastP"), and then click on the
particular line of interest. In this case, the RED lines are the
best matches.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
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