what a difference one amino acid makes

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Sat, 24 Oct 1998 09:57:47 -0500

I found the following in the lastest Nature I got.

"Some species of the nematode worm (Caenorhabditis elegans) are sociable
diners, clumping together to share a meal, yet others are more solitary.
Why? According to a report by de Bono and Bargmann (Cell 94,679-689;1998),
these differences can be explained by a change of just one amino acid in a
putative neuropeptide receptor." Allison Mitchell, "Worming out Social
Secrets," Nature, 395(1998):327
glenn

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