De novo active sites for resurrected Precambrian enzymes.
Risso, V.A., Martinez-Rodriguez, S., Candel, A.M., Kruger, D.M., Pantoja-Uceda, D., Ortega-Munoz, M., Santoyo-Gonzalez, F., Gaucher, E.A., Kamerlin, S.C.L., Bruix, M., Gavira, J.A., Sanchez-Ruiz, J.M.(2017) Nat Commun 8: 16113-16113
- PubMed: 28719578 
- DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16113
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4UHU, 5FQI, 5FQJ, 5FQK, 5FQM, 5FQQ - PubMed Abstract: 
Protein engineering studies often suggest the emergence of completely new enzyme functionalities to be highly improbable. However, enzymes likely catalysed many different reactions already in the last universal common ancestor. Mechanisms for the emergence of completely new active sites must therefore either plausibly exist or at least have existed at the primordial protein stage ...