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Stability-mediated epistasis constrains the evolution of an influenza protein

John Maynard Smith compared protein evolution to the game where one word is converted into another a single letter at a time, with the constraint that all intermediates are words: WORD→WORE→GORE→GONE→GENE. In this analogy, epistasis constrains evolution, with some mutations tolerated only after the...

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Main Authors: Gong, Lizhi Ian, Suchard, Marc A, Bloom, Jesse D
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3654441/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23682315
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00631
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