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ArticleSystems and synthetic biology2014

Identifying pseudogenes from hypothetical proteins for making synthetic proteins.

P R Shidhi, Achuthsankar S Nair, Prashanth Suravajhala

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Article in Systems and synthetic biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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P R ShidhiDepartment of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Kariyavattom Campus, Thiruvananthapuram, 695581 Kerala India.
Achuthsankar S NairDepartment of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Kariyavattom Campus, Thiruvananthapuram, 695581 Kerala India.
Prashanth SuravajhalaBioclues.Org, Hyderabad, India ; Bioinformatics.Org, 28 Pope Street, Hudson, MA 01749 USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nature selected certain regions of the genome for encoding proteins. Most of the sequences were used to encode only RNA. What happened to the remaining sections of the genome? It is possible that some sequences were retired and retained as non-functional entities called pseudogenes. Though several evolutionary prospects with functional endpoints exist, we looked at the possibility of hypothetical proteins correlating with the emergence of pseudogenes and potential of such genes to make novel synthetic molecules. In this commentary, we consider two key aspects: (1) does any correlation exist between hypothetical proteins and pseudogenes and (2)-can we make novel and functional proteins from pseudogenes?

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Hypothetical proteinsPseudogenesSynthetic proteins

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PMID24799963
PMCPMC4009079

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