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Protein folding and Mr estimates

Cormac Shaw cshaw at ollamh.ucd.ie
Thu Jan 22 16:24:23 EST 1998


Hi folks,

Semi-hypothetically speaking, what's the likelihood of this?:

Two similar enzymes with essentially the same polypeptide chain length 
and amino acid composition but with different folding conformations. 
Niether are glycosylated.
BUT the two have apparent relative molecular masses 
of 74,000 and 79,000 on SDS-PAGE after treatment with 
mercaptoethanol.

Is this probable/possible/crazy? Any pointers towards references of 
such occurances and/or comments very welcome. Maybe I'm just tired.

Cormac.

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