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By 1861, even Thomas Huxley was tired of arguing with people who didn't believe in evolution; "Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once," said the eminent biologist.
Differences in the binding pocket for the phosphate-accepting residue permit the changes in the position in the sequence and in the nature of the basic residue; the N εatoms of the K and R residues interact with the acceptor OH and occupy the same position in space.
For various reasons, I have chosen to comment on only certain aspects of this book, chiefly because a thorough review would occupy far more space in VERBATIM than many readers might willingly tolerate.
The MacGuffin, Jennifer Rockwell, might occupy center stage as a corpse, but the reader doesn't believe in her previous existence for a minute.
The advantage of the system here is that the parental cell line lacks BLM and therefore the fusion protein can occupy normal positions without competing with endogenous BLM.