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Proteoform: a single term describing protein complexity

Lloyd M Smith et al. Nat Methods. 2013 Mar.
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The origins of the proteoform terminology to cleanly describe biological variability at the level of protein primary structure. UniProt is a gene-centric database, meaning that it strives to have a single accession number for each gene. There are occasional deviations due to multiple genes (in one species) producing precisely the same primary protein sequence in higher eukaryotes. SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism.
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