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Protein Structural Information and Evolutionary Landscape by In Vitro Evolution

Paolo De Los Rios

Protein structure is tightly intertwined with function according to the laws of evolution. Understanding how structure determines function has been the aim of structural biology for decades. Here, we have wondered instead whether it is possible to exploit ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Massive transformation, as a non-conventional solid-state phase transformation mode, is scarcely observed in metals with hexagonal closed packed (HCP) structure, especially in Zr and its alloys. In this study, however, we report the massive transformation ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2019

A cell fitness selection model for neuronal survival during development

Gioele La Manno

Developmental cell death plays an important role in the construction of functional neural circuits. In vertebrates, the canonical view proposes a selection of the surviving neurons through stochastic competition for target-derived neurotrophic signals, imp ...

2019

Revealing evolutionary constraints on proteins through sequence analysis

Anne-Florence Raphaëlle Bitbol

Statistical analysis of alignments of large numbers of protein sequences has revealed sectors of collectively coevolving amino acids in several protein families. Here, we show that selection acting on any functional property of a protein, represented by an ...

2019

Electron backscatter diffraction study of variant selection during ordering phase transformation in L1(0)-type red gold alloy

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron, Margaux Nathalie Dominique Larcher

A shape-memory effect is known to appear in red gold alloys with compositions close to Au-Cu. The aim of this paper is to study by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) the variant selection in the A1 -> L1(0) transformation occurring under stress, in be ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2019

On the chevron morphology of surface martensite

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron, Annick Pauline Baur

It is established that the annealing twin boundaries of austenite act as nucleation sites for the martensitic transformation. In the present study, we observe that in surface martensite the transformation only takes place for twin boundaries that are appro ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Variant Selection in Fe-20Ni-1.8C under Bending

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron, Annick Pauline Baur

Variant selection is commonly observed in martensitic steels when a stress is applied to the material during transformation. Classically, the selection phenomenon is modelled considering the work of the shape strain in the applied stress field. This shape ...

2018

Experimental evolution of slowed cognitive aging in Drosophila melanogaster

Brian Dennis Hollis

Reproductive output and cognitive performance decline in parallel during aging, but it is unknown whether this reflects a shared genetic architecture or merely the declining force of natural selection acting independently on both traits. We used experiment ...

2017

KRAB zinc finger proteins

Didier Trono, Michaël Imbeault, Gabriela Ecco

Kruppel-associated box domain zinc finger proteins (KRAB-ZFPs) are the largest family of transcriptional regulators in higher vertebrates. Characterized by an N-terminal KRAB domain and a C-terminal array of DNA-binding zinc fingers, they participate, toge ...

2017

Variant selection in surface martensite

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron, Annick Pauline Baur

A significant variant selection is reported in isothermal martensite formed on the surface of an Fe-30% Ni sample. The selection phenomenon is modelled using different descriptions of the martensitic phase transformation. In particular, matrices based on t ...

International Union of Crystallography2017