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Review
. 1990 Jun;15(6):228-34.
doi: 10.1016/0968-0004(90)90035-a.

The evolution of alpha/beta barrel enzymes

G K Farber  1 , G A Petsko
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Review

The evolution of alpha/beta barrel enzymes

G K Farber et al. Trends Biochem Sci. 1990 Jun.

Abstract

Of the enzymes whose structure is known, roughly one out of ten has an eight-stranded alpha/beta barrel domain. Structural and chemical evidence suggests that all of these domains may have diverged from a common ancestor.

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