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A universal trend of amino acid gain and loss in protein evolution

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  • I. King Jordan

    (NIH)

  • Fyodor A. Kondrashov

    (University of California at Davis)

  • Ivan A. Adzhubei

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Yuri I. Wolf

    (NIH)

  • Eugene V. Koonin

    (NIH)

  • Alexey S. Kondrashov

    (NIH)

  • Shamil Sunyaev

    (Harvard Medical School)

Abstract

Amino acids: winners and losers A comparison of corresponding sets of proteins encoded by closely related genes from organisms representing all three domains of life (Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota) suggests that the order in which the genetic code was assembled over 3.5 billion years ago continues to influence the evolution of proteins today. Across these diverse genomes, evolving proteins have accumulated Cys, Met, His, Ser and Phe, and lost many of their Pro, Ala, Glu and Gly residues. The same nine amino acids are currently accrued or lost in human proteins as shown by analysis of nucleotide polymorphisms. The amino acids with declining frequencies were probably among the first incorporated into the genetic code, and most of those with increasing frequencies were probably recruited late.

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  • I. King Jordan & Fyodor A. Kondrashov & Ivan A. Adzhubei & Yuri I. Wolf & Eugene V. Koonin & Alexey S. Kondrashov & Shamil Sunyaev, 2005. "A universal trend of amino acid gain and loss in protein evolution," Nature, Nature, vol. 433(7026), pages 633-638, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:433:y:2005:i:7026:d:10.1038_nature03306
    DOI: 10.1038/nature03306
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    1. Lu-Lu Zheng & Shen Niu & Pei Hao & KaiYan Feng & Yu-Dong Cai & Yixue Li, 2011. "Prediction of Protein Modification Sites of Pyrrolidone Carboxylic Acid Using mRMR Feature Selection and Analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 6(12), pages 1-11, December.
    2. Alan J Situ & Tobias S Ulmer, 2019. "Universal principles of membrane protein assembly, composition and evolution," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(8), pages 1-20, August.

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