- From: Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:31:36 -0400
- To: Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk@idi.ntnu.no>
- Cc: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>, Mark Wilkinson <markw@illuminae.com>, W3C HCLSIG hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Hello Wacek, All,
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk
<Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk@idi.ntnu.no> wrote:
> hmm, so a mixture of all sorts of substances, incidentally *containing*
> exactly one polypeptide chain, would be a protein? a box *containing*
> exactly one polypeptide chain would be a protein?
Sorry: I think it was any compound containing exactly one polypeptide chain.
> clear enough, really? i think the following, taken from stryer's
> biochemistry, 5e p. 41, is more resonable:
>
> "Proteins are linear polymers built of monomer units called amino acids."
If I add a phospho group, is it still a protein?
If yes, it's like the above.
Take care
Oliver
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Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist
BioPAX Integration at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/biopax)
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org
Received on Wednesday, 25 March 2009 20:32:16 UTC