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Stepwise functional evolution in a fungal sugar transporter family
Publication . Gonçalves, Carla; Coelho, Mauro A.; Salema-Oom, Madalena; Gonçalves, Paula
"Sugar transport is of the utmost importance for most cells and is important to a wide range of applied fields. However, despite the straightforward in silico assignment of many novel transporters, including sugar porters, to existing families, their exact biological role and evolutionary trajectory often remain unclear, mainly because biochemical characterization of membrane proteins is inherently challenging, but also owing to their uncommonly turbulent evolutionary histories. In addition, many important shifts in membrane carrier function are apparently ancient, which further limits our ability to reconstruct evolutionary trajectories in a reliable manner.
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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SFRH/BPD/79198/2011