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Stability-mediated epistasis constrains the evolution of an influenza protein.
eLife - 14 May 2013
Gong Lizhi Ian, Suchard Marc A, Bloom Jesse D
Abstract excerpt
John Maynard Smith compared protein evolution to the game where one word is converted into another a single letter at a time, with the constraint that all intermediates are words: WORD→WORE→GORE→GONE→GENE. In this analogy, epistasis constrains evolution, with some mutations tolerated only after the occurrence of others. To test whether epistasis similarly constrains actual protein evolution, we created all...
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