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The evolutionary capacitor HSP90 buffers the regulatory effects of mammalian endogenous retroviruses.
Nature structural & molecular biology - 1 Mar 2017
Hummel Barbara, Hansen Erik C, Yoveva Aneliya, Aprile-Garcia Fernando, Hussong Rebecca, Sawarkar Ritwick
Abstract excerpt
Understanding how genotypes are linked to phenotypes is important in biomedical and evolutionary studies. The chaperone heat-shock protein 90 (HSP90) buffers genetic variation by stabilizing proteins with variant sequences, thereby uncoupling phenotypes from genotypes. Here we report an unexpected role of HSP90 in buffering cis-regulatory variation affecting gene expression. By using the...
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