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Epistasis among adaptive mutations in deer mouse hemoglobin.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 14 Jun 2013
Natarajan Chandrasekhar, Inoguchi Noriko, Weber Roy E, Fago Angela, Moriyama Hideaki, Storz Jay F
Abstract excerpt
Epistatic interactions between mutant sites in the same protein can exert a strong influence on pathways of molecular evolution. We performed protein engineering experiments that revealed pervasive epistasis among segregating amino acid variants that contribute to adaptive functional variation in...
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