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The method used for prediction of three dimensional structure of a protein from known structure(s) of one or more related proteins is
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- Multiple sequence alignment
- Homology modeling
- Phylogeny
- Docking
Correct Option: B
Homology modeling, also known as comparative modeling of protein, refers to constructing an atomic-resolution model of the “target” protein from its amino acid sequence and an experimental three-dimensional structure of a related homologous protein (the “template”). Homology modeling relies on the identification of oneor more known protein structures likely to resemble the structure of the query sequence, and on the production of an alignment that maps residues in the query sequence to residues in the template sequence. It has been shown that protein structures are more conserved than protein sequences amongst homologues, but sequences falling below a 20% sequence identity can have very different structure.