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GeorgeGist

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Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2013, 11:07 AM

Jun 2013

From the abstract:

Here we show that this shift in function was driven primarily by two historical amino acid changes, which caused a ?70,000-fold change in the ancestral protein’s specificity.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/06/21/1303930110

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