Liam M. Longo

Simplified protein design biased for prebiotic amino acids yields a foldable, halophilic protein

Liam M. Longo, Jihun Lee, Michael Blaber · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 109 citations · Full text

Amino Acids, Protein Assembly, Molecular Biology +18

Primordial emergence of a nucleic acid-binding protein via phase separation and statistical ornithine-to-arginine conversion

Liam M. Longo, Dragana Despotović, Orit Weil‐Ktorza et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 98 citations · Full text

On the emergence of P-Loop NTPase and Rossmann enzymes from a Beta-Alpha-Beta ancestral fragment

Liam M. Longo, Jagoda Jabłońska, Pratik Vyas et al. · eLife · 2020 · 95 citations · Full text

Short and simple sequences favored the emergence of N-helix phospho-ligand binding sites in the first enzymes

Liam M. Longo, Dušan Petrović, Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 49 citations · Full text

First Enzymes, Biochemistry, Protein Assembly +15

Characterization of binding of LARP6 to the 5’ stem-loop of collagen mRNAs: Implications for synthesis of type I collagen

Lela Stefanovic, Liam M. Longo, Yujie Zhang et al. · RNA Biology · 2014 · 47 citations · Full text

Protein Assembly, Molecular Biology, ’ Stem-loop +17