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Yeast Proteins may Reversibly Aggregate like Amphiphilic Molecules

Dasmeh, Pouria and Andreas Wagner. 2022. Yeast Proteins may Reversibly Aggregate like Amphiphilic Molecules. Journal of Molecular Biology, 4...

Andreas Wagner Andreas Wagner

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GroEL/S Overexpression Helps to Purge Deleterious Mutations and Reduce Genetic Diversity during Adaptive Protein Evolution

Iyengar, Bharat Ravi and Andreas Wagner. 2022. GroEL/S Overexpression Helps to Purge Deleterious Mutations and Reduce Genetic Diversity duri...

Andreas Wagner Andreas Wagner

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Low protein expression enhances phenotypic evolvability by intensifying selection on folding stability

Karve, Shraddha, Pouria Dasmeh, Jia Zheng and Andreas Wagner. 2022. Low protein expression enhances phenotypic evolvability by intensifying ...

Andreas Wagner Andreas Wagner

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Induced Ice Melting by the Snow Flea Antifreeze Protein from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Todde, Guido, Christopher Whitman, Sven Hovmöller, and Aatto Laaksonen. 2014. Induced Ice Melting by the Snow Flea Antifreeze Protein from M...

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Biological Chemistry: Metal transport by proteins

While DNA contains the genetic information, a large number of different proteins are the ‘workhorses’ in living organisms executing the orders given through the DNA code.

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede
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