Residue mutations and their impact on protein structure and function: detecting beneficial and pathogenic changes

RA Studer, BH Dessailly, CA Orengo - Biochemical journal, 2013 - portlandpress.com
The present review focuses on the evolution of proteins and the impact of amino acid
mutations on function from a structural perspective. Proteins evolve under the law of natural …

Propulsive nanomachines: the convergent evolution of archaella, flagella and cilia

M Beeby, JL Ferreira, P Tripp, SV Albers… - FEMS microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Echoing the repeated convergent evolution of flight and vision in large eukaryotes,
propulsive swimming motility has evolved independently in microbes in each of the three …

Coevolutionary information, protein folding landscapes, and the thermodynamics of natural selection

F Morcos, NP Schafer, RR Cheng… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The energy landscape used by nature over evolutionary timescales to select protein
sequences is essentially the same as the one that folds these sequences into functioning …

Progress and challenges in predicting protein interfaces

R Esmaielbeiki, K Krawczyk, B Knapp… - Briefings in …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The majority of biological processes are mediated via protein–protein interactions.
Determination of residues participating in such interactions improves our understanding of …

Evolutionary Rate Covariation Identifies New Members of a Protein Network Required for Drosophila melanogaster Female Post-Mating Responses

GD Findlay, JL Sitnik, W Wang, CF Aquadro… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Seminal fluid proteins transferred from males to females during copulation are required for
full fertility and can exert dramatic effects on female physiology and behavior. In Drosophila …

Sequence evolution correlates with structural dynamics

Y Liu, I Bahar - Molecular biology and evolution, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Biochemical activity and core stability are essential properties of proteins, maintained
usually by conserved amino acids. Structural dynamics emerged in recent years as another …

Evolution of the land plant exocyst complexes

F Cvrčková, M Grunt, R Bezvoda, M Hála… - Frontiers in plant …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Exocyst is an evolutionarily conserved vesicle tethering complex functioning especially in
the last stage of exocytosis. Homologs of its eight canonical subunits–Sec3, Sec5, Sec6 …

The evolution of gene duplicates in angiosperms and the impact of protein–protein interactions and the mechanism of duplication

J Defoort, Y Van de Peer… - Genome biology and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Gene duplicates, generated through either whole genome duplication (WGD) or small-scale
duplication (SSD), are prominent in angiosperms and are believed to play an important role …

Evolution of ribosomal protein network architectures

Y Timsit, G Sergeant-Perthuis, D Bennequin - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
To perform an accurate protein synthesis, ribosomes accomplish complex tasks involving
the long-range communication between its functional centres such as the peptidyl transfer …

Elucidating the druggable interface of protein− protein interactions using fragment docking and coevolutionary analysis

F Bai, F Morcos, RR Cheng, H Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Protein− protein interactions play a central role in cellular function. Improving the
understanding of complex formation has many practical applications, including the rational …