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2528: Revisiting Puzzle 79: Pheromone

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Summary

Created
October 30, 2024
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Description

This is a throwback puzzle to the early days of Foldit. This pheromone protein is secreted by the protist E. raikovi to initiate conjugation, the exchange of genetic material between two cells. This protein contains ten cysteine residues that oxidize to form five disulfide bonds. We are revisiting old Foldit puzzles so we can see how useful the recent additions to the game have been.

Sequence
GECEQCFSDGGDCTTCFNNGTGPCANCLAGYPAGCSNSDCTAFLSQCYGGC

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Comments

LociOiling Lv 1

OK, they spelled it "pheremone" way back in the early days of Foldit, but it still should be "pheromone".

Also, it took me a while, but I finally noticed that the "Revisiting Puzzle 79:" part is duplicated in the title for 2528.

The last run of this puzzle never had a number in the title, but we put it out there as puzzle 2302, which plugged a gap in the puzzle number sequence.