A mutant protein is the
protein product encoded by a
gene with
mutation. Mutated protein can have single amino acid change (minor, but still in many cases significant change leading to disease) or wide-range amino acid changes by e.g. truncation of C-terminus after introducing premature stop codon.
See also
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Site-directed mutagenesis
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Phi value analysis
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missense mutation
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nonsense mutation
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point mutation
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frameshift mutation
A frameshift mutation (also called a framing error or a reading frame shift) is a genetic mutation caused by indels ( insertions or deletions) of a number of nucleotides in a DNA sequence that is not divisible by three. Due to the triplet nature ...
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silent mutation
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single-nucleotide polymorphism
References
Proteins
Mutation
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