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>The set of all proteins which can potentially be expressed is known. Sure, "known", but it's on the order of 20^10000. It won't fit in the entire visible volu
by weregiraffe 6y ago
>The set of all proteins which can potentially be expressed is known.
Sure, "known", but it's on the order of 20^10000. It won't fit in the entire visible volume of the universe.
- Rochus 6y agoNo, the genome of the host is much smaller than the theoretical number of combinations. There are about 20 to 30k different proteins in a human cell (about 20k directly encoded on the DNA).
- jjk166 6y agoIf you are designing proteins, you're not limited to those that are already encoded in the host's DNA.
- Rochus 6y agoRight, but you made the example with the virus docking at a known organism. If you do synthetic biology and modify bacteria to produce any proteins then the situation is different of course.