A perturbative view of protein structural variation.

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It was recently found that the lowest-energy collective normal modes dominate the evolutionary divergence of protein structures. This was attributed to a presumed functional importance of such motions, i.e., to natural selection. In contrast to this selectionist explanation, we proposed that the observed behavior could be just the expected physical response of proteins to random mutations. This proposal was based...

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