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The protein that can't be there is.
Maybe you've encountered a novel toxin sufficiently related to
lef to permit PCR amplification, but not related enough to match
known lef sequences in GenBank. This doesn't make a whole lot of
sense, but you don't have any better idea at the moment. With this
in mind, you translate the DG47
sequence, submit the translated sequence to Blast
to search for similar proteins, getting the results displayed by
clicking here.
This is what you had expected a moment ago, perfect identity between
your mystery protein and Bacillus proteins in the database. But
that's not what you expect now. Blast just got through telling you
that there wasn't any similarity between the gene and anything it
knew about. |
