Article
Protein families in the metazoan genome.
Development (Cambridge, England). Supplement - 1 Jan 1994
Chothia C
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of development involves the development of new proteins. Estimates based on the initial results of the genome projects, and on the data banks of protein sequences and structures, suggest that the large majority of proteins come from no more than one thousand families. Members of a family are descended from a common ancestor. Protein families evolve by gene duplication and mutation. Mutations change...
Topics
- Animals
- Evolution, Molecular
- Exons
- Introns
- Invertebrates
- Molecular Structure
- Multigene Family
- Mutation
- Protein Conformation
- Proteins