I am using biomaRt tool to get the peptides for BRCA1 using below code:
library(biomaRt)
mart = useMart('ensembl', dataset='hsapiens_gene_ensembl')
seq = getSequence(id='BRCA1', type='hgnc_symbol', seqType='peptide', mart = mart)
27 different sequences are returned, and 12 of those have an asterisk (*) in the end, while 15 do not. What does that mean? I know that asterisk is used to indicate stop codon. So, does that mean the peptides without an asterisk do not have a stop codon? Is that possible at all?
MDLSALRVEEVQNVINAMQKILECPICLELIKEPVSTKCDHIFCKVLLCCPSWSTVVRS* is an example sequence with an asterisk in the end. MDLSALRVEEVQNVINAMQKILECPICLELIKEPVSTKCDHIFCKSLQESTRFSQLVEELLKIICAFQLDTGLEYANSYNFAKKENNSPEHLKDEVSI is an example without an asterisk.
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The ones without an asterisk don't have a stop codon because they are 3' incomplete: http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?db=core;g=ENSG00000012048;r=17:43044295-43170245
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