An evolutionary trade-off between protein turnover rate and protein aggregation favors a higher aggregation propensity in fast degrading proteins.

We previously showed the existence of selective pressure against protein aggregation by the enrichment of aggregation-opposing 'gatekeeper' residues at strategic places along the sequence of proteins. Here we analyzed the relationship between protein lifetime and protein aggregation by com...

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Main Authors: Greet De Baets, Joke Reumers, Javier Delgado Blanco, Joaquin Dopazo, Joost Schymkowitz, Frederic Rousseau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-06-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3121684?pdf=render