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Evolutionary fates of universal stress protein paralogs in Platyhelminthes.
BMC evolutionary biology - 1 Feb 2018
Espinola Sergio Martin, Cancela Martin Pablo, Brisolara Corrêa Lauís, Zaha Arnaldo
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Universal stress proteins (USPs) are present in all domains of life. Their expression is upregulated in response to a large variety of stress conditions. The functional diversity found in this protein family, paired with the sequence degeneration of the characteristic ATP-binding motif, suggests a complex evolutionary pattern for the paralogous USP-encoding genes. In this work, we investigated the...
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