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Testing whether metazoan tyrosine loss was driven by selection against promiscuous phosphorylation.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jan 2015
Pandya Siddharth, Struck Travis J, Mannakee Brian K, Paniscus Mary, Gutenkunst Ryan N
Abstract excerpt
Protein tyrosine phosphorylation is a key regulatory modification in metazoans, and the corresponding kinase enzymes have diversified dramatically. This diversification is correlated with a genome-wide reduction in protein tyrosine content, and it was recently suggested that this reduction was dr...
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