Protein structure: evolutionary bridges to new folds.
The question of whether novel, structurally different protein folds might have arisen from existing ones is crucial to understanding protein evolution. Recent work on cysteine-rich domains in Hydra proteins illuminates how evolutionary transitions between dramatically different structures might occur.
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Todd O
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UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 611 Charles Young Drive East, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA. yeates@mbi.ucla.edu
D000818:Animals; D003545:Cysteine / Q000737:chemistry; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D006829:Hydra / Q000737:chemistry*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
D011506:Proteins; D003545:Cysteine