Folding and knotting of biotic and pre-biotic amino acid sequences through reverse evolution
João N. C. Especial, Patrícia F. N. Faísca
This study uses reverse evolution simulations to show that amino acid alphabets evolved to improve protein folding, but early alphabets may not have favored deeply knotted structures.
Biophysical Journal · Jul 28, 2025Peer-reviewedBiophysics