1st large-scale map of a plant's protein network addresses evolution, disease process
Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 13:41
in Biology & Nature
The eon-spanning clock of evolution the millions of years that generally pass before organisms acquire new traits belies a constant ferment in the chambers and channels of cells, as changes in genes and proteins have subtle ripple effects throughout an organism. In a study in the July 29 issue of Science, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Systems Biology and an international team of colleagues capture the first evidence of the evolutionary process within networks of plant proteins.