Quick help on determining protein size - (Apr/24/2006 )

Hi! If a gene for a protein has 1460 bp, what's the size of the protein produced, how do you determine that?

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you multiplicate by 110, which is the mean weight of aminoacids.

your protein should be around 160 kDa.
However keep in mind that there can be some post translational modifications.

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Hi.

Divide the number of bases by 3 (gives you the number of exons;=486.667). THEN multiply by 110 (average MW of an amino acid residue; =58500 Da; 58 kDa).

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Oh yes Swanny you're right, I mixed the bp and the aminoacids !
Then the protein should be around 58 kDa

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