Download presentation
Presentation is loading. Please wait.
1
Protein Alignments: Clues to Protein Function
Chapter 4 Protein Alignments: Clues to Protein Function
2
Figure 4.1: Fruit fly © Studiotouch/ShutterStock, Inc.
3
Figure 4.2a: General structure of amino acids
4
Figure 4.2b: Alanine
5
Figure 4.2c: Phenylalanine
6
Figure 4.3a: Aspartate and Glutamate
7
Figure 4.3b: Leucine and Valine
8
Figure 4. 4: Alignment showing identical (
Figure 4.4: Alignment showing identical (*) and similar (:) amino acids
9
Figure 4.5: “Good” DNA alignment ignoring coding sequence; very little similarity occurs at the protein level
10
Figure 4.6: Paralogs and orthologs are two kinds of evolutionarily related sequences
11
Figure 4.7: The PAM250 substitution matrix
12
Figure 4. T1: Hydrophobicity values for the 20 amino acids
Figure 4.T1: Hydrophobicity values for the 20 amino acids. A more positive value represents a more hydrophobic amino acid
13
Figure 4.8: Example showing how data from a training set can be used to develop a substitution matrix
Similar presentations
© 2025 SlidePlayer.com. Inc.
All rights reserved.