Posted: July 16th, 2017

Gene X” encodes a four amino acid protein of the sequence “alanine-leucine-cysteinelysine” (written N-terminus to C-terminus). Which of the proteins below (also written Nterminus to C-terminus) could result from a single missense mutation in this gene?

“Gene X” encodes a four amino acid protein of the sequence “alanine-leucine-cysteinelysine”
(written N-terminus to C-terminus). Which of the proteins below (also written Nterminus
to C-terminus) could result from a single missense mutation in this gene?
A. alanine-leucine-leucine-lysine
B. lysine-cysteine-leucine-alanine
C. alanine-leucine
D. alanine-leucine-cysteine