Why is protein sequencing useful?
1 Answer
It will give information about the function of the protein.
Explanation:
If you do not know anything about the function of a protein then you can analyse the primary sequence using a range of bioinformatics tools to predict its function.
Bioinformatic tools can help you predict the cellular loctation of the protein, whether or not is an enzyme, or it it is modified in some way.
Once you have predicted the function and role of the protein in the cell you can then carry out experiments to test your hypothesis.
If the function of the protein is known then analysing the sequence can help you predict the function of proteins with no known function, or help you spot relationships between proteins that were previously unknown.
Finally, analysis of the sequence of a protein from a 'deseased' cell, when compared to the same protein from a 'healthy' cell, can give you an insight in to how or why the disease comes about.
