sequence conservation

collocation in English

meaningsofsequenceandconservation

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sequence
noun
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/ˈsiː.kwəns/us
/ˈsiː.kwəns/
a series of related things or events, or the order in which they follow ...
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conservation
noun[U]
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/ˌkɒn.səˈveɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːn.sɚˈveɪ.ʃən/
the protection of plants and animals, natural areas, and interesting and important structures and buildings, especially from the damaging effects of ...
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(Definition ofsequenceandconservationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsequence conservation

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Once again, the information onsequenceconservationin these species is exceedingly fragmentary.
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They extract functionally important residues fromsequenceconservationpatterns and map them onto the protein surface to identify functional clusters.
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Much has been made of the high degree ofsequenceconservationamong the chaperonins, particularly in terms of the immunogenicity of these proteins.
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Species distantly related to rodents show littlesequenceconservationin this region, with a variety of different arrangements of serine/threonine residues.
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Although fusion peptide regions of the glycoproteins of unrelated viruses have little if anysequenceconservationthey do share certain features.
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These proteins range in size from 56 to 65 amino acids and have limited overallsequenceconservation, with 30-40 % identity between family members.
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The sequences also show very littlesequenceconservation.
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Visualization ofsequenceconservationis a tough task of comparative sequence analysis.
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Multiple sequence alignment is often used to assesssequenceconservationof protein domains, tertiary and secondary structures, and even individual amino acids or nucleotides.
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Understanding its regulation is further complicated because even between mammalian species, there is little proteinsequenceconservation.
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With active sitesequenceconservation, it is suggested that dehydratase enzymes originated from a common ancestor.
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This establishes thesequenceconservationand importance of dyskerin within the eukaryotes.
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In the comparative genomics approach,sequenceconservationof non-coding regions can be indicative of enhancers.
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It has been shown that three-dimensional protein structure is evolutionarily more conserved than would be expected on the basis ofsequenceconservationalone.
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One bioinformatics approach evaluatedsequenceconservationcriteria by filtering seed complementary target-binding sites.
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Thissequenceconservationfurther supports the theory that both the alternative and plastid oxidases evolved before endosymbiosis and did not significantly change through eukaryote evolution.
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Sequenceconservationis found in the second pseudoknot loop.
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Analysis of expressed sequence tags and the whole genome have shown a remarkable degree of similarity in the genesequenceconservationand complexity between the sea anemone and vertebrates.
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A histidine-rich motif, previously identified bysequenceconservation, was shown to be a metal ion binding site located on the beta sheet core, nearby the carboxy-terminal catalytic tyrosine residue.
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