Post-translational modifications, such as the phosphorylation of tyrosines, are often the initiation step for intracellular signaling cascades. Pan-reactive antibodies against modified amino acids (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSelecting amino acids to design novel protein-protein interactions that facilitate catalysis is a daunting challenge. We propose that a computational coevolutionary landscape based on sequence analysis alone offers a major advantage over expensive, time-consuming brute-force approaches currently employed. Our coevolutionary landscape allows prediction of single amino acid substitutions that produce functional interactions between non-cognate, interspecies signaling partners.
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