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Description: A sequence alignment, produced by ClustalO, of mammalian histone proteins. Sequences are the amino acids for residues 120-180 of the proteins. Residues that are conserved across all sequences are highlighted in grey. Below the protein sequences is a key denoting conserved sequence (*), conservative mutations (:), semi-conservative mutations (.), and non-conservative mutations ( ).[1]
Title: Histone Alignment
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Author: Thomas Shafee
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