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protein sector: a standalone construct

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Biophysics

a sparse group of coevolving residues in a protein family that forms a physically connected unit tied to a particular function.

In biophysics, protein sector refers to a sparse group of coevolving residues in a protein family that forms a physically connected unit tied to a particular function. This meaning comes from Halabi (2009) in Cell.[1]

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References

Halabi, N., Rivoire, O., Leibler, S., & Ranganathan, R. (2009). Protein Sectors: Evolutionary Units of Three-Dimensional Structure. Cell, 138(4), 774-786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2009.07.038

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