deduced amino acid sequence

noun

a sequence of amino acids predicted from a sequence of nucleotides using information about codons used in a particular organism

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noundeduced amino acid sequence (plural deduced amino acid sequences)

plural deduced amino acid sequences

  1. biochemistrya sequence of amino acids predicted from a sequence of nucleotides using information about codons used in a particular organism

    Thus, when Asn-X-Ser/Thr sequons are present in a deduced amino acid sequence encoded by a cDNA, they are not identified categorically as N-glycan sites, but are referred to as potential N-glycan sites.

    2009, Pamela Stanley with Schachter, Harry and Taniguchi, Naoyuki, “N-Glycans”, in Essentials of Glycobiology, →ISBN, →OCLC, page Ch.8/Sec.3
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