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Characteristics of amino acids, building blocks of proteins, are first discussed, followed by discussions on protein structures and diversity of proteins. Gene family, super gene family, domains, and folds are discussed, and then, major categories of proteins are explained. Finally, history of protein study is discussed.
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Saitou, N. (2018). Proteins. In: Introduction to Evolutionary Genomics. Computational Biology, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92642-1_2
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