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Inferring stabilizing mutations from protein phylogenies: application to influenza hemagglutinin.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Apr 2009
Bloom Jesse D, Glassman Matthew J
Abstract excerpt
One selection pressure shaping sequence evolution is the requirement that a protein fold with sufficient stability to perform its biological functions. We present a conceptual framework that explains how this requirement causes the probability that a particular amino acid mutation is fixed during evolution to depend on its effect on protein stability. We mathematically formalize this framework to develop a...
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