FASTA Sequences:
FASTA amino acid sequences for Tau and its various homo-sapiens isoforms, along with two homologues found in Mus musculus (mouse) and Macaca mulatta (monkey).
FASTA format is the text style showing amino acid or nucleotide sequences for a given protein. The sequence is predominantly used by other database search tools such as BLAST, and sequence alignment programmes such as Clustal. The initial line shows the name, accession number and comments for the following sequence. The line is indicated by the presence of a greater than symbol, >. Sequences are represented in the standard IUPAC amino acid and nucleic acid code.
These sequences were obtained from the Uniprot sequences database. The software takes the amino acid or nucleotide sequence and searches a variety of databases using local sequence alignments to ascertain matches between protein or DNA sequences. The results provided show data that determines statistical significance of an alignment to interpret relationships between sequences. This helps identify members of gene families.
The accepted amino acid codes are:
A - alanine
B - aspartate or asparagine
C - cystine
D - aspartate
E - glutamate
F - phenylalanine
G - glycine
H - histidine
I - isoleucine
K - lysine
L - leucine
M - methionine
N – asparagine
P - proline
Q - glutamine
R - arginine
S - serine
T - threonine
U - selenocysteine
V - valine
W - tryptophan
Y - tyrosine
Z - glutamate or glutamine
X - any
* - translation stop
- gap of indeterminate length
The nucleic acid codes are:
A - adenosine
C - cytidine
G - guanine
T - thymidine
U - uridine
R - G A (purine)
Y - T C (pyrimidine)
K - G T (keto)
M - A C (amino)
S - G C (strong)
W - A T (weak)
B - G T C
D - G A T
H - A C T
V - G C A
N - A G C T (any)
- gap of indeterminate length
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