On the Origin of Protein Superfamilies and Superfolds

Distributions of protein families and folds in genomes are highly skewed, having a small number of prevalent superfamiles/superfolds and a large number of families/folds of a small size. Why are the distributions of protein families and folds skewed? Why are there only a limited number of protein fa...

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Main Authors: Magner, Abram, Szpankowski, Wojciech, Kihara, Daisuke
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4336935/