Question

In lecture we talked about the rationale of why some proteins are conserved over the course of evolution. What were three reasons we gave why actin is conserved?

Answer 1

Actin:

• Actin is the most abundant protein in the eukaryotic cell.

• Actin are highly conserved because it is essential for all the organism to provide the proteins.

• Due to the pathogen entering in our body at first it affect the actin cytoskeleton or it is taken over by the numerous pathogen.

• Actin is the important body building structure in our body to maintain the important cellular process in our body.

• The process including muscle contraction, cell motality, cell division and cytokinesis.

• Actin is the highly conserved globular protein found in almost all eukaryotic cells.