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Nature of the protein universe
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The protein universe is the set of all proteins of all organisms. Here, all currently known sequences are analyzed in terms of families that have single-domain or multidomain architectures and whether they have a known three-dimensional structure. Growth of new single-domain families is very slow: Almost all growth comes from new multidomain architectures that are combinations of domains characterized by ≈15,000 sequence profiles. Single-domain families are mostly shared by the major groups of organisms, whereas multidomain architectures are specific and account for species diversity. There are known structures for a quarter of the single-domain families, and >70% of all sequences can be partially modeled thanks to their membership in these families.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Levitt, M.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2009-07-07
- Volume
- 106
- Issue
- 27
- Pages
- 11079-11084
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W1986347357
- Cited by
- 315
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 8.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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