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Ancestral resurrection reveals evolutionary mechanisms of kinase plasticity.
eLife - 13 Oct 2014
Howard Conor J, Hanson-Smith Victor, Kennedy Kristopher J, Miller Chad J, Lou Hua Jane, Johnson Alexander D, Turk Benjamin E, Holt Liam J
Abstract excerpt
Protein kinases have evolved diverse specificities to enable cellular information processing. To gain insight into the mechanisms underlying kinase diversification, we studied the CMGC protein kinases using ancestral reconstruction. Within this group, the cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs) and mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs) require proline at the +1 position of their substrates, while Ime2 prefers...
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