On the importance of oxidative folding in the evolution of conotoxins: cysteine codon preservation through gene duplication and adaptation.

Conotoxin genes are among the most rapidly evolving genes currently known; however, despite the well-established hypervariability of the intercysteine loops, the cysteines demonstrate significant conservation, with a site-specific codon bias for each cysteine in a family of conotoxins. Herein we pre...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Andrew M Steiner, Grzegorz Bulaj, Nicolas Puillandre
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3823881?pdf=render