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The duplicated deacetylases Sir2 and Hst1 subfunctionalized by acquiring complementary inactivating mutations.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Aug 2011
Froyd Cara A, Rusche Laura N
Abstract excerpt
Protein families are generated by successive rounds of gene duplication and subsequent diversification. However, the paths by which duplicated genes acquire distinct functions are not well characterized. We focused on a pair of duplicated deacetylases from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Sir2 and Hst1, that subfunctionalized after duplication. As a proxy for the ancestral, nonduplicated deacetylase, we studied Sir2...
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