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Purifying selection enduringly acts on the sequence evolution of highly expressed proteins in Escherichia coli.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 4 Nov 2022
Shibai Atsushi, Kotani Hazuki, Sakata Natsue, Furusawa Chikara, Tsuru Saburo
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary speed of a protein sequence is constrained by its expression level, with highly expressed proteins evolving relatively slowly. This negative correlation between expression levels and evolutionary rates (known as the E-R anticorrelation) has already been widely observed in past macroevolution between species from bacteria to animals. However, it remains unclear whether this seemingly general law...
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