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The QUASI algorithm thus indicates at this exemplary codon that both tyrosine and serine are positively selected; isoleucine, leucine, and cystine are negatively selected; and the selective advantage or disadvantage of valine is indistinguishable from neutral drift.
This suggested that the increased size of the isoleucine side chain compared to valine might improve a hydrophobic interaction with one or both adenosines.
Therefore, glycine, proline and tyrosine are relatively conserved residues in TM-helical regions, and isoleucine, valine, methionine and threonine have relatively high mutability.
Previous biochemical studies on MAO and COMT have shown that the COMT Valine isoforms have 4-fold higher levels of enzymatic activity than the Methionine isoform.
As Mycobacterium tuberculosis already uses a valine in position 64 (Figure 3), it is understandable that the Met64 → Val substitution should cause a less severe disease phenotype.