Electrostatic changes enabled the diversification of an exocyst subunit via protein complex escape
Juan Carlos De la Concepción, Héloïse Duvergé, Yoonwoo Kim, Jose Julian, Haonan D. Xu, Matthew Watt, Sara Ait Ikene, Anita Bianchi, Nenad Grujic, Ranjith K. Papareddy, Irina Grishkovskaya, David Haselbach, David H. Murray, Marion Clavel, Nicholas A. T. Irwin, Yasin Dagdas
The paper shows electrostatic changes in the Exo70 subunit led to its dissociation from the exocyst complex, enabling functional divergence in plants.
Nature Plants · Oct 31, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology