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If the BLASTN alignment spanned at least 240 nucleotides, and the percentage identity in the BLASTN comparison exceeded that for the corresponding segment of the TBLASTX comparison by more than 10%, this was taken as evidence that the protein potentially encoded by the novel sequence was under less selective pressure than is seen for known EPK family members, and is therefore probably a pseudogene or sequencing artifact.
The DNA template spanned part of exon 22, all of exon 23, and part of exon 24 of the BRCA1 gene.
In all these searches, the alignments more or less spanned the entire length of the CyaB protein and typically contained the same set of conserved residues.
Apparently, some rescue workers took an adjacent elevator to the place where the man and woman were stuck, took out the side panels that separated the two elevator cars, then asked them to make a tightrope walk across a narrow beam that spanned the shaft between the two elevators, as if these two poor knee-knocking souls were suddenly the second coming of Karl Wallenda.
Peptides overlapped by 10 amino acids and spanned the entire HIV-1 clade B 2001 consensus sequence.