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: Lizhi Ian Gong, Marc A Suchard, Jesse D Bloom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2013-05-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/00631