The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

By Madeline C Weiss, Filipa L. Sousa, Natalia Mrnjavac, Sinje Neukirchen, Mayo Roettger, Shijulal Nelson-Sathi, William F. Martin. Nature Microbiology, 2016

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Subfields: Biochemistry, Ecology, Molecular Biology

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• HydDB: A web tool for hydrogenase classification and analysis (2016, background): “It is also proposed that H 2 was the primordial electron donor 4,5 .”
• Evolutionary velocity with protein language models (2021, positive): “280 Cell Systems 13, 274–285, April 20, 2022 Evo-velocity of ancient evolution After validating that evo-velocity could reconstruct longer trajectories of protein evolution, we applied evo-velocity to highly conserved proteins, which often have substantial evolutionary uncertainty (Weiss et al., 201”
• Comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the ribonucleotide reductase family reveals an ancestral clade (2022, positive): “Indeed, cobalamin, AdoMet, and Fe-S clusters have all been proposed to be part of the cofactor set used by the last universal common ancestor ( Weiss et al., 2016 ).”