Search Results - "Pressman, Abe"
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The RNA World as a Model System to Study the Origin of Life
Published in Current biology (05-10-2015)“…Understanding how life arose is a fundamental problem of biology. Much progress has been made by adopting a synthetic and mechanistic perspective on…”
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Mapping a Systematic Ribozyme Fitness Landscape Reveals a Frustrated Evolutionary Network for Self-Aminoacylating RNA
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (17-04-2019)“…Molecular evolution can be conceptualized as a walk over a “fitness landscape”, or the function of fitness (e.g., catalytic activity) over the space of all…”
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Molecular Fitness Landscapes from High-Coverage Sequence Profiling
Published in Annual review of biophysics (06-05-2019)“…The function of fitness (or molecular activity) in the space of all possible sequences is known as the fitness landscape. Evolution is a random walk on the…”
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Precision engineering of biological function with large-scale measurements and machine learning
Published in PloS one (29-03-2023)“…As synthetic biology expands and accelerates into real-world applications, methods for quantitatively and precisely engineering biological function become…”
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The genotype‐phenotype landscape of an allosteric protein
Published in Molecular systems biology (01-03-2021)“…Allostery is a fundamental biophysical mechanism that underlies cellular sensing, signaling, and metabolism. Yet a quantitative understanding of allosteric…”
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Analysis of in Vitro Evolution Reveals the Underlying Distribution of Catalytic Activity Among Random Sequences
Published in Nucleic acids research (21-08-2017)“…The emergence of catalytic RNA is believed to have been a key event during the origin of life. Understanding how catalytic activity is distributed across…”
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Genomic analysis of methanogenic archaea reveals a shift towards energy conservation
Published in BMC genomics (21-08-2017)“…The metabolism of archaeal methanogens drives methane release into the environment and is critical to understanding global carbon cycling. Methanogenesis…”
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Erratum To: The genotype‐phenotype landscape of an allosteric protein
Published in Molecular systems biology (16-12-2021)Get full text
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Interpretable modeling of genotype–phenotype landscapes with state-of-the-art predictive power
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-06-2022)“…Large-scale measurements linking genetic background to biological function have driven a need for models that can incorporate these data for reliable…”
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Interpretable modeling of genotype–phenotype landscapes with state-of-the-art predictive power
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-06-2022)“…Large-scale measurements linking genetic background to biological function have driven a need for models that can incorporate these data for reliable…”
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Kinetic sequencing (k-Seq) as a massively parallel assay for ribozyme kinetics: utility and critical parameters
Published in Nucleic acids research (09-07-2021)“…Abstract Characterizing genotype-phenotype relationships of biomolecules (e.g. ribozymes) requires accurate ways to measure activity for a large set of…”
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The genotype‐phenotype landscape of an allosteric protein
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Analysis of in vitro evolution reveals the underlying distribution of catalytic activity among random sequences
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Measuring Biochemical Possibility Spaces in Evolutionary Engineering
Published 01-01-2019“…At the molecular level, artificial selection—controlling the forces of evolution to improve or design new biochemical functions— makes up one of our strongest…”
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Genomic analysis of methanogenic archaea reveals a shift towards energy conservation
Published in BMC genomics (21-08-2017)“…The metabolism of archaeal methanogens drives methane release into the environment and is critical to understanding global carbon cycling. Methanogenesis…”
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Measurements drive progress in directed evolution for precise engineering of biological systems
Published in Current opinion in systems biology (01-10-2020)“…Precise engineering of biological systems requires quantitative, high-throughput measurements, exemplified by progress in directed evolution. New approaches…”
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