Protein homology
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Protein homology is biological homology between proteins, meaning that the proteins are derived from a common "ancestor". [1] The proteins may be in different species, with the ancestral protein being the form of the protein that existed in the ancestral species (orthology). Or the proteins may be in the same species, but have evolved from a single protein whose gene was duplicated in the genome (paralogy).
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- ^ Reeck GR, de Haën C, Teller DC et al (August 1987). ""Homology" in proteins and nucleic acids: a terminology muddle and a way out of it". Cell 50 (5): 667. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(87)90322-9. PMID 3621342.
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