recobinant and chimeric - (May/30/2006 )

is the word recobinant and chimeric is used as the same sense???
i cant understand whether i can call all the recombinant dna, gene or enzyme as chimeric too
could you plz clear my idea??
thanks

sometimes a search of this site will yield all kinds of good stuff

try this thread to see if it can help you; Vetticus took the time to add some very interesting links to her explanations and there are some comments that might help clear it up for you

recombinant and chimeric is not the same.

a recombinant protein has the same sequence than the native protein.
It's prepared from the cDNA of the native protein, and is expressed most often is E coli.
However, even if the sequence is the same, you can have different post-translational modifications because of the different system of expression.

a chimeric protein is a mixture of several proteins.