Fitness costs of minimal sequence alterations causing protein instability and toxicity.

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Destabilization of a protein impairs its metabolic efficiency. It is less clear how often destabilization also results in a gain of toxicity. We derived collections of temperature-sensitive, and thus structurally unstable, mutants of the yeast ADE2 and LYS2 genes by introducing single or very few amino acids substitutions. Overexpression of these mutant proteins led to a common, although unequal, fitness...

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