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Abstract
The amino acid residues of protease inhibitors that interact directly with proteases are hypervariable, suggesting recent positive evolutionary selection for functional differences between them. A similar hypervariability is apparent in some proteases, which may be co-evolving with the inhibitors.Mesh:
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Year: 1989 PMID: 2678630 DOI: 10.1016/0968-0004(89)90159-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Biochem Sci ISSN: 0968-0004 Impact factor: 13.807