Rapid bursts and slow declines: On the possible evolutionary trajectories of enzymes

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 107, 2015, Pages

  Newton, Matilda S ^a   Arcus, Vickery L ^b   Patrick, Wayne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Activity threshold; Adaptive evolution; Ancestral sequence reconstruction; Catalytic efficiency

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MOBILE SECURITY;

ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION; CATALYTIC EFFICIENCIES; CATALYTIC PEAK; CATALYTIC POWER; OTHER PROPERTIES; SEQUENCE RECONSTRUCTION;

ENZYMES;

3 ISOPROPYLMALATE DEHYDROGENASE; ALPHA GLYCOSIDASE; AMIDOPHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; ATRAZINE; ATRAZINE CHLOROHYDROLASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; GLUCOKINASE; GLYCOSIDASE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; MELAMINE; MELAMINE DEHYDROGENASE; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PARATHION; PHOSPHOSERINE; PHOSPHOTRIESTERASE; THIOREDOXIN; TRYPTOPHAN SYNTHASE; TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URATE OXIDASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENZYME; PESTICIDE;

BACILLUS; BREVUNDIMONAS DIMINUTA; CARBON SOURCE; CATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; CELL ENERGY; COLONY FORMATION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME EVOLUTION; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; WILD TYPE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PESTICIDES;

EID: 84930750921     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0036     Document Type: Review

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