Thursday, January 27, 2011

What is the name and the length of the shortest protein in the human body?

Human protein Q6YH21, a collagen-like molecule associated with acetylcholinesterase in skeletal muscle, has a variant gene NM_080542, which encodes for the shortest protein in the human body.  See more detailed information, including the gene sequence, at the link:

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