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RE: Better Functional Understanding From Studying Human Vs Neanderthal Enzymes
Is this the first analysis of a Neanderthal protein? If so I'm guessing that's the main draw of the paper. Cool find either way.
I am not sure if it is the very first, but clearly it was the draw of the paper. Their data was a whole lotta not much though. (If it were I kinda suspect a higher impact journal than Scientific Reports)
It seems to me like their isn't a large body of good mechanistic biochemistry on this enzyme. So most working knowledge is based purely on biology and genetic context.