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Qin Yi Yu

University of TorontoORCID 0000-0002-3946-262XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:comparative / phylogenetic analysis· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Research Focus:protein folding & dynamics· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1 Organism:yeast· 1

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Evolutionary BiologyCell ReportsPeer-reviewedSep 24, 2025

Functional consequences of reductive protein evolution in a minimal eukaryotic genome

Jason Jiang, Rui Qu, Maria Grigorescu…·Aaron W. Reinke

This study examines how protein reduction in microsporidia affects function, showing that most proteins cannot complement yeast orthologs and are more reduced in length.

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