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Evolution of phage with chemically ambiguous proteomes.
BMC evolutionary biology - 10 Dec 2003
Bacher Jamie M, Bull James J, Ellington Andrew D
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BACKGROUND: The widespread introduction of amino acid substitutions into organismal proteomes has occurred during natural evolution, but has been difficult to achieve by directed evolution. The adaptation of the translation apparatus represents one barrier, but the multiple mutations that may be required throughout a proteome in order to accommodate an alternative amino acid or analogue is an even more daunting...
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