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In an attempt to isolate the effect of duplication per se on purifying selection, we analyzed paralogs and orthologs that appeared to encode proteins with similar functions, namely secreted and membrane proteins that were identified by signal peptide and transmembrane helix prediction.
For the adjacent AA sequences, nearly 75% occur in loops, while approximately 12% of the AA sequences occur in helices, another 12% occur at the 3'loop-5'helix junction, and less than 5% occur in 3'helix-5'loop junctions.
Author 3 SJ developed monoclonal antibody NC-1 and was involved in studies on the gp41 six helix bundles and on synergism between CAP and sCD4 for inhibition of HIV-1 infectivity.
Two complementary molecules of single-stranded DNA have paired bases that bond with each other and form the well-known double helix structure.
It was determined very early in this methodology that the correct helix is the one that contains positions within a potential helix that vary in composition while maintaining G:C, A:U, and G:U base pairs.