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Alanine scanning, a Common card
In molecular biology, alanine scanning is a site-directed mutagenesis technique used to determine the contribution of a specific residue to the stability or function of a given protein.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 50
- DEF
- 25
- Power
- 75
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,200
Power 75 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Alanine scanning quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alanine scanning card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This technique can also be used to determine whether the side chain of a specific residue plays a ______ role in bioactivity.
Answer
significant. This technique can also be used to determine whether the side chain of a specific residue plays a significant role in bioactivity. From the Alanine scanning article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
USS Estes. USS Estes 56 · Alanine scanning 50 · Griffonia 45 · Yardenit 42 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Alanine is used because of its non-bulky, chemically inert, methyl functional group that nevertheless mimics the secondary structure preferences that many of the other amino acids possess.
- Sometimes bulky amino acids such as valine or leucine are used in cases where conservation of the size of mutated residues is needed.
- This technique can also be used to determine whether the side chain of a specific residue plays a significant role in bioactivity.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alanine scanning article was read about 4,200 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 50 and blocks with 25: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Alanine scanning
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Alanine scanning in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Satilla RiverCommon · Nature · ATK 50 DEF 25
- USS EstesCommon · History · ATK 56 DEF 19
- YardenitCommon · Nature · ATK 42 DEF 33
- GriffoniaCommon · Nature · ATK 45 DEF 30
- Ingvar AmbjørnsenCommon · Arts · ATK 49 DEF 26
- Karl Emil NygardCommon · History · ATK 49 DEF 26
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Text : Wikipedia, Alanine scanning (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Austen Sitko, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
