https://phys.org/news/2019-01-mutations-key-protein-oversees-cellular.html

"Usually you find some differences between versions of proteins from one species to another," explains Filip Van Petegem, a professor in the University of British Columbia's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. "For calmodulin that's not the case—it's so incredibly conserved."

It also oversees hundreds of different proteins within the body, adjusting a broad array of cellular functions that are as crucial to our survival and health as a steady heartbeat.