Additionally, they found these single amino acid changes occur at only seven places on its surface — not the 130 places previously believed. (sciencedaily.com)
Now, a team led by Michael Egan, Bai Lu, and Michael Weinberger, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, has found that a single amino acid change in BDNF — a swap of methionine for valine at position 66 — can affect a person's ability to perform a memory task. (sciencemag.org)
Radical amino acid changes alter protein function. (uchospitals.edu)