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Protein motif
A pattern of amino acids that is conserved across many proteins and confers a particular function on the protein.


Read more about this term in the Online Textbook:
Genomics: Determining Gene Function from Sequence Information
Proteins and Proteomics: Introduction to Protein Structure

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