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Comment CDK Proteins are extremely tightly conserved (Score 5, Insightful) 94

This protein is changed so little across the entire spectrum of eukaryotic cells that brewer's yeast can have their CDK replaced with the human version with no ill effect. Something that's proliferated for so long with so little change indicates that very small changes make the organism unviable. Tampering with the expression of this protein seems like an amazingly bad idea.

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