Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Discovery of archaeal Fusexins homologous to eukaryotic HAP2/GCS1 gamete fusion proteins
D. Moi, S. Nishio, X. Li…·B. Podbilewicz
The paper identifies archaeal proteins homologous to eukaryotic gamete fusion proteins and shows they can mediate cell fusion.
DOI 10.1038/s41467-022-31564-1