Reconstruction of Ancestral Metabolic Enzymes Reveals Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Evolutionary Innovation through Gene Duplication

Karin Voordeckers; Chris A. Brown; Kevin Vanneste; Elisa van der Zande; Arnout Voet; Steven Maere; Kevin J. Verstrepen

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001446

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Reconstruction of Ancestral Metabolic Enzymes Reveals Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Evolutionary Innovation through Gene Duplication

Karin Voordeckers ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Karin Voordeckers, Chris A. Brown

Affiliations VIB Laboratory for Systems Biology, Leuven, Belgium, CMPG Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Chris A. Brown ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Karin Voordeckers, Chris A. Brown

Affiliations VIB Laboratory for Systems Biology, Leuven, Belgium, CMPG Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Fathom Information Design, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Kevin Vanneste,

Affiliations VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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Elisa van der Zande,

Affiliations VIB Laboratory for Systems Biology, Leuven, Belgium, CMPG Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Arnout Voet,

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular en Structural Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Steven Maere ,

* E-mail: Steven.Maere@psb.vib-ugent.be (SM); Kevin.Verstrepen@biw.vib-kuleuven.be (KJV)

Affiliations VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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Kevin J. Verstrepen

* E-mail: Steven.Maere@psb.vib-ugent.be (SM); Kevin.Verstrepen@biw.vib-kuleuven.be (KJV)

Affiliations VIB Laboratory for Systems Biology, Leuven, Belgium, CMPG Laboratory for Genetics and Genomics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Reconstruction of Ancestral Metabolic Enzymes Reveals Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Evolutionary Innovation through Gene Duplication

Karin Voordeckers,
Chris A. Brown,
Kevin Vanneste,
Elisa van der Zande,
Arnout Voet,
Steven Maere,
Kevin J. Verstrepen

Published: December 11, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001446

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Instructive article, just blogged about it.

Posted by Panagrellus on 04 Jan 2013 at 10:19 GMT

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http://panagrellus.de/?p=...

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Instructive article, just blogged about it.

Posted by Panagrellus on 04 Jan 2013 at 10:19 GMT