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Phenotypic mutation rates and the abundance of abnormal proteins in yeast.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Nov 2007
Willensdorfer Martin, Bürger Reinhard, Nowak Martin A
Abstract excerpt
Phenotypic mutations are errors that occur during protein synthesis. These errors lead to amino acid substitutions that give rise to abnormal proteins. Experiments suggest that such errors are quite common. We present a model to study the effect of phenotypic mutation rates on the amount of abnormal proteins in a cell. In our model, genes are regulated to synthesize a certain number of functional proteins. During...
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