Mutant protein

A mutant protein is the protein product encoded by a gene with mutation. Mutated protein can have single amino acid change (minor, but still in many cases significant change leading to disease) or wide-range amino acid changes by e.g. truncation of C-terminus after introducing premature stop codon.

See also

• Site-directed mutagenesis
• Phi value analysis
• missense mutation
• nonsense mutation
• point mutation
• frameshift mutation
• silent mutation
• single-nucleotide polymorphism