Towards functional repertoire of the earliest proteins
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Year of publication | 2013 |
Type | Article in Periodical |
Magazine / Source | Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics |
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Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2012.735623 |
Field | Genetics and molecular biology |
Keywords | ABC cassettes; protein modules; earliest proteins; omnipresent motifs; last universal cellular ancestor |
Description | The conserved protein sequence motifs present in all prokaryotic proteomes, omnipresent motifs, presumably, correspond to the earliest proteins of the Last Universal Cellular Ancestor, from which all the proteomes have descended. Future analysis of less conserved sequence motifs may reveal at what degree of conservation (stage of evolution) the metabolic enzymes could have entered the scene. |
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