bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.13.903906; this version posted January 14, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Deep Evolutionary History of the Phox and Bem1 (PB1) Domain 2 Across Eukaryotes 3 4 Sumanth Kumar Mutte1 and Dolf Weijers1, * 5 1Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, 6708WE, Wageningen, 6 the Netherlands 7 8 Sumanth Kumar Mutte:
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[email protected] 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.13.903906; this version posted January 14, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 21 ABSTRACT 22 Protein oligomerization is a fundamental process to build complex functional modules. 23 Domains that facilitate the oligomerization process are diverse and widespread in nature 24 across all kingdoms of life. One such domain is the Phox and Bem1 (PB1) domain, which is 25 functionally (relatively) well understood in the animal kingdom. However, beyond animals, 26 neither the origin nor the evolutionary patterns of PB1-containing proteins are understood. 27 While PB1 domain proteins have been found in other kingdoms, including plants, it is unclear 28 how these relate to animal PB1 proteins.