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There is precedent for the finding that within a homolog grouping whose members have differing substrate specificities, proteins sharing a substrate specificity do not necessarily cluster together; for example, B. subtilis AroA and close relatives are clustered more specifically with KdsA sequences than with E. coli AroA and its close relatives [ 24].
The New York City Council yesterday offered a radically different set of priorities for the handling of the city's legal work in its response to Mayor Bloomberg's plan to close a projected $4.
The close proximity of Lys61 to both A-4 and A-10 suggests the possibility that the introduction of aromatic residues may allow stacking interactions.
I feel that I haven't given you anything to really start a fight about here, so I am going to close by saying that I really like the Backstreet Boys, especially Howie.
Is your position that welfare mothers were better off in dependency and close to their kids rather than in work and distant (for some of the time) from their kids?