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Multidimensional Phylogenetic Metrics Identify Class I Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Evolutionary Mosaicity and Inter-Modular Coupling.
International journal of molecular sciences - 28 Jan 2022
Carter Charles W, Popinga Alex, Bouckaert Remco, Wills Peter R
Abstract excerpt
The role of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRS) in the emergence and evolution of genetic coding poses challenging questions concerning their provenance. We seek evidence about their ancestry from curated structure-based multiple sequence alignments of a structurally invariant "scaffold" shared by all 10 canonical Class I aaRS. Three uncorrelated phylogenetic metrics-mutation frequency, its uniformity, and...
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