Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
De novo emergence of adaptive membrane proteins from thymine-rich intergenic sequences
N. Vakirlis, O. Acar, B. Hsu…·A.-R. Carvunis
This study shows that de novo emerging coding sequences in yeast often encode beneficial transmembrane proteins, suggesting that intergenic regions may contain pre-existing blueprints for such functions.
DOI 10.1038/s41467-020-14500-z