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Thus, although the identification of MJ1477 as a secreted polygalactosaminidase or a related polysaccharide hydrolase with a different specificity awaits experimental verification, it shows all the signs of a correct computational prediction: statistically significant similarity between the analyzed protein and an experimentally characterized enzyme; conservation of distinct motifs implicated in catalysis; potential presence of a structural fold compatible with the experimentally demonstrated enzymatic activity; and confident prediction of the extracellular localization that is, again, compatible with a polysaccharide hydrolase activity involved in environmental carbohydrate utilization or capsular metabolism.
No document links them, but shared motifs (a woman weighing gold, a trompe l'oeil curtain drawn just so) in their paintings--especially from a magic moment around 1658--suggest an intimacy akin to such famous partnerships as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, or Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
Protein-sequence motifs were identified by PROSITE [ 31].
The other three motifs are new.
To derive functional motifs, the BLAST list was culled to 37 unique sequences with identity ranging from 25% to 98%.