The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77092   Message #1376615
Posted By: Splott Man
11-Jan-05 - 11:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Useless Trivia
Subject: RE: BS: Useless Trivia
"ACETYLSERYLTYROSYLSERYLISOLEUCYL-
THREONYLSERYLPROLYLSERYLGLUTAMINYL-
PHENYLALANYLVALYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCYL-
SERYLSERYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLALA..." etc

Sorry to be pedantic Brucie, but to quote one of my bosses (as if one wasn't enough)

"all that is is a list of the building blocks that make up a
protein - they're amino acids. So, I imagine they've taken an important
protein within TMV and then named each amino acid along its length. It's
not proper nomenclature and wouldn't mean anything to us biochemists if (God
forbid) we had to read it in a paper!"

However, I enjoyed it,

Do you know it from memory?