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GroEL/ES buffering and compensatory mutations promote protein evolution by stabilizing folding intermediates.
Journal of molecular biology - 23 Sept 2013
Wyganowski Kirsten T, Kaltenbach Miriam, Tokuriki Nobuhiko
Abstract excerpt
Maintaining stability is a major constraint in protein evolution because most mutations are destabilizing. Buffering and/or compensatory mechanisms that counteract this progressive destabilization during functional adaptation are pivotal for protein evolution as well as protein engineering. However, the interplay of these two mechanisms during a full evolutionary trajectory has never been explored. Here, we...
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