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Energy-dependent fitness: a quantitative model for the evolution of yeast transcription factor binding sites.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 Aug 2008
Mustonen Ville, Kinney Justin, Callan Curtis G, Lässig Michael
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We present a genomewide cross-species analysis of regulation for broad-acting transcription factors in yeast. Our model for binding site evolution is founded on biophysics: the binding energy between transcription factor and site is a quantitative phenotype of regulatory function, and selection is given by a fitness landscape that depends on this phenotype. The model quantifies conservation, as well as loss and...
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