Extinct proteins resurrected to reconstruct the evolution of vertebrate haemoglobin

Michael Berenbrink ()

Nature, 2020, vol. 581, issue 7809, 388-389

Abstract: The multi-subunit protein haemoglobin relies on complex interactions between its components to function properly. Analysis of ancient precursors suggests that its evolution from a simple monomer involved only a few steps.

Keywords: Molecular biology; Evolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01287-8 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:581:y:2020:i:7809:d:10.1038_d41586-020-01287-8

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/d41586-020-01287-8

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().