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Adaptive protein evolution grants organismal fitness by improving catalysis and flexibility.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 30 Dec 2008
Tomatis Pablo E, Fabiane Stella M, Simona Fabio, Carloni Paolo, Sutton Brian J, Vila Alejandro J
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Protein evolution is crucial for organismal adaptation and fitness. This process takes place by shaping a given 3-dimensional fold for its particular biochemical function within the metabolic requirements and constraints of the environment. The complex interplay between sequence, structure, functionality, and stability that gives rise to a particular phenotype has limited the identification of traits acquired...
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