Biochemistry
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Author: Lubert Stryer, Jeremy M. Berg, John L. Tymoczko, Gregory J. Gatto Jr.
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 12, Problem 17P
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The ambiguities of using the hydropathy plots to determine whether the protein is a membrane protein needs to be explained.
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A graph that is named a hydropathy plot shows the location of an amino acid in a polypeptide and its hydrophobic/hydrophilic nature. This plot can be used to discover clusters of hydrophobic amino acids which show whether the specified polypeptide in the plot is a transmembrane protein or not.
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