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The Evolution of Protein Folds by Creative Destruction
C. Alvarez-Carreno, R. J. Gupta, A. S. Petrov, L. D. Williams
The paper identifies a mechanism called creative destruction that explains how new protein folds evolve from existing ones through gene duplication, merging, and adaptation.
DOI 10.1101/2022.03.30.486258