alt Hacker NewsWhat plagiarism even means in context of proteins? That one protein steals a fold of another protein without giving proper credit to it?
What plagiarism even means in context of proteins? That one protein steals a fold of another protein without giving proper credit to it?
I understood it as metaphor - just that evolutionarily distant sequences can adopt the same (or very similar) folds because there are only a limited number of stable, accessible folds that are possible.