Evolution towards simplicity in bacterial small heat shock protein system
Evolution can tinker with multi-protein machines and replace them with simpler single-protein systems performing equivalent functions in an equally efficient manner. It is unclear how, on a molecular level, such simplification can arise. With ancestral reconstruction and biochemical analysis, we hav...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2023-12-01
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Series: | eLife |
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/89813 |