Two forms of the ubiquitous protein actin differ by only four amino acids but are dissimilar in 13% of their nucleotide coding sequences due to silent substitutions. A new study reveals that these supposedly ‘silent’ differences have an impact on how fast actin mRNA gets translated into protein and subsequently on the protein’s function in propelling cell movement.
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Source: ScienceDaily