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A Research Lab Working on a Protein Exchanges a Methionine

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A research lab working on a protein exchanges a methionine with an isoleucine in one experiment and exchanges the same methionine with a glutamic acid in a second experiment.Discuss how these changes could result in very different changes to the protein's tertiary structure and why.


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