Mechanisms for the evolution of a derived function in the ancestral glucocorticoid receptor.

Understanding the genetic, structural, and biophysical mechanisms that caused protein functions to evolve is a central goal of molecular evolutionary studies. Ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR) offers an experimental approach to these questions. Here we use ASR to shed light on the earliest fun...

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Main Authors: Sean Michael Carroll, Eric A Ortlund, Joseph W Thornton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-06-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3116920?pdf=render