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Gustavo Caetano-Anollés is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with 61 publications in these domains. Their work spans several subfields, including molecular biology, infectious diseases, ecology, plant science, and genetics.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range of areas including genomics and phylogenetic studies, protein structure and dynamics, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, plant virus research, and evolution and genetic dynamics.

Recent significant publications by Gustavo Caetano-Anollés include the following:

  • New Pathways of Mutational Change in SARS-CoV-2 Proteomes Involve Regions of Intrinsic Disorder Important for Virus Replication and Release (2020), published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics
  • Temperature and Latitude Correlate with SARS-CoV-2 Epidemiological Variables but not with Genomic Change Worldwide (2021), published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics
  • Evolution of networks of protein domain organization (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • The origin and evolution of viruses inferred from fold family structure (2020), published in Archives of Virology
  • Tracing protein and proteome history with chronologies and networks: folding recapitulates evolution (2021), published in Expert Review of Proteomics

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Fizza Mughal
  • M. Fayez Aziz
  • Kelsey Caetano-Anollés
  • Arshan Nasir
  • Tre Tomaszewski

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés has published regularly in journals such as Life, BioEssays, Preprints.org, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, and Frontiers in Microbiology, contributing multiple articles to each venue.

Best Publications

  • Fast and sensitive silver staining of DNA in polyacrylamide gels

    Brant J. Bassam;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Peter M. Gresshoff

  • DNA amplification fingerprinting using very short arbitrary oligonucleotide primers.

    Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Brant J. Bassam;Peter M. Gresshoff

  • Plant Genetic Control of Nodulation

    Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Peter M. Gresshoff

  • DNA markers : protocols, applications, and overviews

    Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Peter M. Gresshoff

  • Amplifying DNA with arbitrary oligonucleotide primers.

    Gustavo Caetano-Anolles

  • History of biological metal utilization inferred through phylogenomic analysis of protein structures.

    Christopher L. Dupont;Andrew Butcher;Ruben E. Valas;Philip E. Bourne

  • Chemotaxis of Rhizobium meliloti to the plant flavone luteolin requires functional nodulation genes.

    G Caetano-Anollés;D K Crist-Estes;W D Bauer

  • The origin, evolution and structure of the protein world

    Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Minglei Wang;Derek Caetano-Anollés;Jay E. Mittenthal

  • DNA amplification fingerprinting: A strategy for genome analysis

    Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Brant J. Bassam;Peter M. Gresshoff

  • Silver staining of DNA in polyacrylamide gels

    Brant J. Bassam;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

  • A phylogenomic data-driven exploration of viral origins and evolution

    Arshan Nasir;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

  • Primer-template interactions during DNA amplification fingerprinting with single arbitrary oligonucleotides.

    Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Brant J. Bassam;Peter M. Gresshoff

  • An Evolutionarily Structured Universe of Protein Architecture

    Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Derek Caetano-Anollés

  • The origin of modern metabolic networks inferred from phylogenomic analysis of protein architecture

    Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Hee Shin Kim;Jay E. Mittenthal

  • DNA amplification fingerprinting of bacteria.

    Brant J. Bassam;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Peter M. Gresshoff

  • The evolutionary mechanics of domain organization in proteomes and the rise of modularity in the protein world.

    Minglei Wang;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

  • Reductive evolution of architectural repertoires in proteomes and the birth of the tripartite world

    Minglei Wang;Liudmila S. Yafremava;Derek Caetano-Anollés;Jay E. Mittenthal

  • Ribosomal History Reveals Origins of Modern Protein Synthesis

    Ajith Harish;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

  • The origin and evolution of modern metabolism.

    Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Liudmila S. Yafremava;Hannah Gee;Derek Caetano-Anollés

  • Tracing the evolution of RNA structure in ribosomes

    Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Gresshoff
Peter M. Gresshoff University of Queensland
Pierre Pontarotti
Pierre Pontarotti Aix-Marseille University
Didier Raoult
Didier Raoult Aix-Marseille University
Jean-Marc Rolain
Jean-Marc Rolain Aix-Marseille University
Bernard La Scola
Bernard La Scola Aix-Marseille University
Philippe Colson
Philippe Colson Aix-Marseille University
Charles G. Kurland
Charles G. Kurland Lund University
Eduardo S. G. Mizubuti
Eduardo S. G. Mizubuti Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Patrick Forterre
Patrick Forterre University of Paris-Saclay
Sandra L. Rodriguez-Zas
Sandra L. Rodriguez-Zas University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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