Talk:Tryptophan synthase

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[edit] Technical term

Is it true the technical term or scientific name for this is 1500-2000 characters long? If so, that would make an interesting note. Gohst 10:02, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

There's a way of naming peptide by their amino acid composition but it is not a technical or scientific name, that would be unpractical, the technical term or scientific name for Tryptophan synthase is Tryptophan synthase and nothing else. Anyway, the naming of a protein by its amino acid sequence is not reliable as proteins vary in sequence according to which organism they belong to and within an organism there are variations between homologues. Blastwizard 11:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

You could go to the website http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-imm1.htm for the scientific name mentioned by the User: Gohst

The article you refer to says exactly the same thing as what I said on the subject in past and archived discussions on the topic, maybe it was valid in the 60's when protein sequencing was in its infancy but is no longer relevant nowadays just anecdotal at best.Blastwizard 13:59, 23 January 2007 (UTC)