The Role of Metabolism in Shaping Enzyme Structures Over 400 Million Years of Evolution
Oliver Lemke, Benjamin Murray Heineike, Sandra Viknander, Nir Cohen, Feiran Li, Jacob Lucas Steenwyk, Leonard Spranger, Federica Agostini, Cory Thomas Lee, Simran Kaur Aulakh, Judith G. Berman, Antonis Rokas, Jens Nielsen, Toni Ingolf Gossmann, Aleksej Zelezniak, Markus Ralser
This study uses AlphaFold2 to analyze how metabolism influenced enzyme structural evolution across 400 million years by examining 11,269 enzyme structures and their metabolic reactions.
Nature · Jul 9, 2025Peer-reviewedSystems Biology