# overview
A long-term research goal of our group is to determine the molecular basis behind protein-lipid interactions and how these interactions can modulate the structure and function of membrane proteins, including their interactions with signaling molecules. What determines the selectivity of membrane proteins towards lipids, and the coupling between lipid binding events and function remains a key knowledge gap in the field; one that if addressed will significantly advance our understanding of how lipids participate in both normal and pathophysiological processes of membrane proteins. Therefore, there is a critical need to expand our fundamental knowledge in this emerging field by applying and developing innovative approaches to elucidate how lipids modulate the structure function of membrane proteins. To this end, we are studying a number of ion channels, receptors and other types of membrane proteins.

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Mass Spectrometry Of Intact Membrane Protein Complexes

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1.1 Normal Biological Development And Functioning

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1.1 Normal Biological Development And Functioning

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Periodic Focusing Drift Tube Ion Mobility

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1.1 Normal Biological Development And Functioning

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California State University, Chico - (Chico, California, United States)

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University of California Los Angeles - (Los Angeles, California, United States)

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California State University, Chico - (Chico, California, United States)

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Characterization of Membrane Protein-Lipid Interactions by Mass Spectrometry Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry.

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First-Principles Collision Cross Section Measurements of Large Proteins and Protein Complexes.

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The structured core domain of B-crystallin can prevent amyloid fibrillation and associated toxicity.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Surface Activity of Amines Provides Evidence for the Combined ESI Mechanism of Charge Reduction for Protein Complexes.

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Origin of complexity in haemoglobin evolution.

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Dimerization and heme binding are conserved in amphibian and starfish homologues of the microRNA processing protein DGCR8.

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Probing Heterogeneous Lipid Interactions with Membrane Proteins Using Mass Spectrometry.

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The role of the detergent micelle in preserving the structure of membrane proteins in the gas phase.

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Detergent-free mass spectrometry of membrane protein complexes.

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Combining native mass spectrometry and lipidomics to uncover specific membrane protein-lipid interactions from natural lipid sources.

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Variable-Temperature Native Mass Spectrometry for Studies of Protein Folding, Stabilities, Assembly, and Molecular Interactions.

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Crystal structures of truncated alphaA and alphaB crystallins reveal structural mechanisms of polydispersity important for eye lens function.

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Implementing Digital-Waveform Technology for Extended m/z Range Operation on a Native Dual-Quadrupole FT-IM-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer.

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Design of a symmetry-broken tetrahedral protein cage by a method of internal steric occlusion.

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Non-3D domain swapped crystal structure of truncated zebrafish alphaA crystallin.

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Charge Engineering Reveals the Roles of Ionizable Side Chains in Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry.

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Enhanced Characterization of Membrane Protein Complexes by Ultraviolet Photodissociation Mass Spectrometry.

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Selective regulation of human TRAAK channels by biologically active phospholipids.

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Protonation state of glutamate 73 regulates the formation of a specific dimeric association of mVDAC1.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Polyamine detergents tailored for native mass spectrometry studies of membrane proteins.

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Covalent Inactivation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isocitrate Lyase by cis-2,3-Epoxy-Succinic Acid.

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Thermal Analysis of a Mixture of Ribosomal Proteins by vT-ESI-MS: Toward a Parallel Approach for Characterizing the Stabilitome.

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Temperature Regulates Stability, Ligand Binding (Mg2+ and ATP), and Stoichiometry of GroEL-GroES Complexes.

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Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Basic Principles and Concepts of Mass Spectrometry

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Development and Evaluation of a Reverse-Entry Ion Source Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer.

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High-Throughput Mass Spectrometry for Biopharma: A Universal Modality and Target Independent Analytical Method for Accurate Biomolecule Characterization.

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Water Plays Key Roles in Stabilities of Wild Type and Mutant Transthyretin Complexes.

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Imperfect symmetry facilitated the evolution of specificity and high-order stoichiometry in vertebrate hemoglobin.

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Investigation of Protein-Lipid Interactions Using Native Mass Spectrometry.

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Molecular assemblies of the catalytic domain of SOS with KRas and oncogenic mutants.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Sequencing covalent modifications of membrane proteins.

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Double and triple thermodynamic mutant cycles reveal the basis for specific MsbA-lipid interactions.

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Variation of CI-2 Conformers upon Addition of Methanol to Water: An IMS-MS-Based Thermodynamic Analysis.

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Structural principles that enable oligomeric small heat-shock protein paralogs to evolve distinct functions.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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TREK2 Lipid Binding Preferences Revealed by Native Mass Spectrometry.

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Quantifying the stabilizing effects of protein-ligand interactions in the gas phase.

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Collision-Induced Unfolding Studies of Proteins and Protein Complexes using Drift Tube Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometer.

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Identification of two SET domain proteins required for methylation of lysine residues in yeast ribosomal protein Rpl42ab.

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Fourier Transform-Ion Mobility-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer: A Next-Generation Instrument for Native Mass Spectrometry.

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Dissecting the Thermodynamics of ATP Binding to GroEL One Nucleotide at a Time.

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Allostery revealed within lipid binding events to membrane proteins.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Topological Analysis of Transthyretin Disassembly Mechanism: Surface-Induced Dissociation Reveals Hidden Reaction Pathways.

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Structural basis for lipid and copper regulation of the ABC transporter MsbA.

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Hydroponics on a chip: analysis of the Fe deficient Arabidopsis thylakoid membrane proteome.

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Discovery of Potent Charge-Reducing Molecules for Native Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Studies.

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Variable-Temperature Electrospray Ionization for Temperature-Dependent Folding/Refolding Reactions of Proteins and Ligand Binding.

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Double and triple thermodynamic mutant cycles reveal the basis for specific MsbA-lipid interactions.

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Entropy in the Molecular Recognition of Membrane Protein-Lipid Interactions.

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Mass spectral analyses of the two major apolipoproteins of great ape high density lipoproteins.

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Entropy in the molecular recognition of membrane protein-lipid interactions

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A novel 3-methylhistidine modification of yeast ribosomal protein Rpl3 is dependent upon the YIL110W methyltransferase.

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Structural basis of ion transport and inhibition in ferroportin.

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Native mass spectrometry of proteoliposomes containing integral and peripheral membrane proteins.

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Native mass spectrometry and structural studies reveal modulation of MsbA-nucleotide interactions by lipids.

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Insight into the Phospholipid-Binding Preferences of Kir3.4.

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A hydrophobic ratchet entrenches molecular complexes.

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Allosteric modulation of protein-protein interactions by individual lipid binding events.

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Membrane proteins bind lipids selectively to modulate their structure and function.

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Mechanism of anion exchange and small-molecule inhibition of pendrin.

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Mass spectrometry of intact membrane protein complexes.

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Native IM-Orbitrap MS: Resolving What Was Hidden.

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Insight into the Selectivity of Kir3.2 toward Phosphatidylinositides.

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A conserved PLPLRT/SD motif of STING mediates the recruitment and activation of TBK1.

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Determining Membrane Protein-Lipid Binding Thermodynamics Using Native Mass Spectrometry.

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Molecular basis for amyloid-beta polymorphism.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Protons Are Fast and Smart; Proteins Are Slow and Dumb: On the Relationship of Electrospray Ionization Charge States and Conformations.

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Generation of Charge-Reduced Ions of Membrane Protein Complexes for Native Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Studies.

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Cardiolipin Regulates the Activity of the Mitochondrial ABC Transporter ABCB10.

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Melting of Hemoglobin in Native Solutions as measured by IMS-MS.

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Capturing RAS oligomerization on a membrane.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Self-Masked Aldehyde Inhibitors: A Novel Strategy for Inhibiting Cysteine Proteases.

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Structural basis for lipid and copper regulation of the ABC transporter MsbA

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Structure of a designed protein cage that self-assembles into a highly porous cube.

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C-terminal interactions mediate the quaternary dynamics of B-crystallin.

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Intrinsic GTPase Activity of K-RAS Monitored by Native Mass Spectrometry.

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Melting Proteins: Evidence for Multiple Stable Structures upon Thermal Denaturation of Native Ubiquitin from Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Mass Spectrometry Measurements.

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Selective binding of a toxin and phosphatidylinositides to a mammalian potassium channel.

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Development of Native MS Capabilities on an Extended Mass Range Q-TOF MS.

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An approach to crystallizing proteins by metal-mediated synthetic symmetrization.

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Structural Analysis of the Effect of a Dual-FLAG Tag on Transthyretin.

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FTflow: An Open-Source Python GUI for FT-IM-MS Experiments.

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Nonlinear frequency modulation for Fourier transform ion mobility mass spectrometry improves experimental efficiency

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Native Mass Spectrometry of Membrane Protein-Lipid Interactions in Different Detergent Environments.

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Surface induced dissociation as a tool to study membrane protein complexes.

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Evidence for Many Unique Solution Structures for Chymotrypsin Inhibitor 2: A Thermodynamic Perspective Derived from vT-ESI-IMS-MS Measurements.

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Design of a symmetry-broken tetrahedral protein cage by a method of internal steric occlusion.

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2'-Deoxy Guanosine Nucleotides Alter the Biochemical Properties of Ras.

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Catalytic Mechanism of SARS-CoV2 3Chymotrypsin-Like Protease as Determined by Steady-State and Pre-Steady-State Kinetics

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Atomic view of a toxic amyloid small oligomer.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Double and triple thermodynamic mutant cycles reveal the basis for specific MsbA-lipid interactions

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Dynamical coupling of intrinsically disordered proteins and their hydration water: comparison with folded soluble and membrane proteins.

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Author Correction: Origin of complexity in haemoglobin evolution.

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A Sec14-like phosphatidylinositol transfer protein paralog defines a novel class of heme-binding proteins.

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Real time characterization of the MAPK pathway using native mass spectrometry.

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Ag+ Ion Binding to Human Metallothionein-2A Is Cooperative and Domain Specific.

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Dissecting the Thermodynamics of ATP Binding to GroEL One Nucleotide at a Time

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Step toward Probing the Nonannular Belt of Membrane Proteins.

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New insights into the metal-induced oxidative degradation pathways of transthyretin.

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The Effect of Detergent, Temperature, and Lipid on the Oligomeric State of MscL Constructs: Insights from Mass Spectrometry.

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Variable-Temperature ESI-IMS-MS Analysis of Myohemerythrin Reveals Ligand Losses, Unfolding, and a Non-Native Disulfide Bond.

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Adapting a Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Q-TOF for High m/z Native Mass Spectrometry and Surface-Induced Dissociation.

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Native ion mobility mass spectrometry studies of potassium inward rectifier channels: insight into gating and lipid binding

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of General Medical Science

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Elucidating the stoichiometry of GPCR oligomers

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Elucidating the stoichiometry of GPCR oligomers

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

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Analysis of Staphylococcus Aureus Host Interactions

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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Innovative Native Ion Mobility Approaches for Transformational Measurements in Structural Biology

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National Institute of General Medical Sciences - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Native ion mobility mass spectrometry studies of potassium inward rectifier channels: insight into gating and lipid binding

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of General Medical Science

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Texas A&M University; Chemistry; 3255 TAMU

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A Surprisingly Simple Biochemistry Rule Drives the Evolution of Useless Complexity