Structural basis for divergent and convergent evolution of catalytic machineries in plant aromatic amino acid decarboxylase proteins
M. P. Torrens-Spence, Y.-C. Chiang, T. Smith, M. A. Vicent, Y. Wang, J.-K. Weng
This paper presents crystal structures of four plant AAAD paralogs, revealing structural features and mutations that underlie divergent substrate selectivity and convergent aldehyde synthase activity evolution.
bioRxiv · Mar 20, 2020Biochemistry