Can random sequences encode meaningful functions and allow de novo gene birth? To explore this, Michael Laub and I screened 100 million random genes, without sequence similarity to natural genes, for their ability to rescue growth arrest of E. coli cells producing the ribonuclease toxin MazF.
Can random sequences encode meaningful functions and allow de novo gene birth? To explore this, Michael Laub and I screened 100 million random genes, without sequence similarity to natural genes, for their ability to rescue growth arrest of E. coli cells producing the ribonuclease toxin MazF.
Idan Frumkin & Michael Laub. Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein homeostasis pathways.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Microsky #Genetics #Evolution #Microbiology
Idan Frumkin & Michael Laub. Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein homeostasis pathways.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Microsky #Genetics #Evolution #Microbiology