Biology A-Level
surface proteins
What surface proteins means in Biology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of surface proteins
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Proteins likely to be displayed on the outside of the cell or virus, picked out from the proteome once the genome is sequenced.
Topics that use surface proteins
- Using genome projects (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- comparing species
- genome
- introns and exons
- memory cells
- non-coding DNA
- potential antigens
- regulatory genes
- splicing
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