Betul Kacar, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
NASA Astrobiology Institute 

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2023 Garcia AK, Harris DF, Rivier AJ, Carruthers BM, Pinochet-Barros A, Seefeldt L, Kaçar B. Nitrogenase resurrection and the evolution of a singular enzymatic mechanism. Elife. 12. PMID 36799917 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.85003  0.385
2022 Fer E, McGrath KM, Guy L, Hockenberry AJ, Kaçar B. Early divergence of translation initiation and elongation factors. Protein Science : a Publication of the Protein Society. 31: e4393. PMID 36250475 DOI: 10.1002/pro.4393  0.321
2022 Garcia AK, Fer E, Sephus C, Kacar B. An Integrated Method to Reconstruct Ancient Proteins. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2569: 267-281. PMID 36083453 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2691-7_13  0.4
2022 Goldman AD, Kaçar B. Very early evolution from the perspective of microbial ecology. Environmental Microbiology. PMID 35944516 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16144  0.34
2022 Garcia AK, Kolaczkowski B, Kaçar B. Reconstruction of nitrogenase predecessors suggests origin from maturase-like proteins. Genome Biology and Evolution. PMID 35179578 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evac031  0.404
2021 De Tarafder A, Parajuli NP, Majumdar S, Kaçar B, Sanyal S. Kinetic Analysis Suggests Evolution of Ribosome Specificity in Modern Elongation Factor-Tus from 'Generalist' Ancestors. Molecular Biology and Evolution. PMID 33871630 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab114  0.3
2020 Venkataram S, Monasky R, Sikaroodi SH, Kryazhimskiy S, Kacar B. Evolutionary stalling and a limit on the power of natural selection to improve a cellular module. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 32680961 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1921881117  0.339
2020 Garcia AK, McShea H, Kolaczkowski B, Kaçar B. Reconstructing the evolutionary history of nitrogenases: Evidence for ancestral molybdenum-cofactor utilization. Geobiology. PMID 32065506 DOI: 10.1111/Gbi.12381  0.425
2020 Liberles DA, Chang B, Geiler-Samerotte K, Goldman A, Hey J, Kaçar B, Meyer M, Murphy W, Posada D, Storfer A. Emerging Frontiers in the Study of Molecular Evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution. PMID 32060574 DOI: 10.1007/S00239-020-09932-6  0.47
2019 Garcia AK, Kaçar B. How to resurrect ancestral proteins as proxies for ancient biogeochemistry. Free Radical Biology & Medicine. PMID 30951835 DOI: 10.1016/J.Freeradbiomed.2019.03.033  0.375
2018 Walker SI, Bains W, Cronin L, DasSarma S, Danielache S, Domagal-Goldman S, Kacar B, Kiang NY, Lenardic A, Reinhard CT, Moore W, Schwieterman EW, Shkolnik EL, Smith HB. Exoplanet Biosignatures: Future Directions. Astrobiology. 18: 779-824. PMID 29938538 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2017.1738  0.361
2018 Adam ZR, Fahrenbach AC, Kacar B, Aono M. Prebiotic Geochemical Automata at the Intersection of Radiolytic Chemistry, Physical Complexity, and Systems Biology Complexity. 2018: 1-21. DOI: 10.1155/2018/9376183  0.32
2017 Kacar B, Guy L, Smith E, Baross J. Resurrecting ancestral genes in bacteria to interpret ancient biosignatures. Philosophical Transactions. Series a, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences. 375. PMID 29133450 DOI: 10.1098/Rsta.2016.0352  0.512
2017 Kacar B, Garmendia E, Tuncbag N, Andersson DI, Hughes D. Functional Constraints on Replacing an Essential Gene with Its Ancient and Modern Homologs. Mbio. 8. PMID 28851849 DOI: 10.1128/Mbio.01276-17  0.429
2017 Kacar B, Hanson-Smith V, Adam ZR, Boekelheide N. Constraining the timing of the Great Oxidation Event within the Rubisco phylogenetic tree. Geobiology. PMID 28670785 DOI: 10.1111/Gbi.12243  0.372
2017 Kacar B, Ge X, Sanyal S, Gaucher EA. Experimental Evolution of Escherichia coli Harboring an Ancient Translation Protein. Journal of Molecular Evolution. PMID 28233029 DOI: 10.1007/S00239-017-9781-0  0.549
2016 Domagal-Goldman SD, Wright KE, Adamala K, Arina de la Rubia L, Bond J, Dartnell LR, Goldman AD, Lynch K, Naud ME, Paulino-Lima IG, Singer K, Walter-Antonio M, Abrevaya XC, Anderson R, Arney G, et al. The Astrobiology Primer v2.0. Astrobiology. 16: 561-653. PMID 27532777 DOI: 10.1089/Ast.2015.1460  0.337
2013 Kaçar B, Gaucher EA. Experimental evolution of protein-protein interaction networks Biochemical Journal. 453: 311-319. PMID 23849056 DOI: 10.1042/Bj20130205  0.544
2012 Kaçar B, Gaucher E. Towards the recapitulation of ancient history in the laboratory: Combining synthetic biology with experimental evolution Artificial Life 13: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference On the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Alife 2012. 11-18. DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-31050-5-Ch002  0.565
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