FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend on the most prevalent protein fold in nature. These structures are widely used as templates for constructions across kingdoms. When mutations of these folds occur in viruses, where they originated, they result in non-infective particles. That the most plentiful life form would produce the most plentiful and flexible structures, acquired by lateral gene transfer, is probably of little surprise.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022