MODELING NEUTRAL AND SELECTIVE EVOLUTION OF PROTEIN FOLDING

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LIPMAN, DJ
WILBUR, WJ
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[1] Nat. Center for Biotech. Info., National Library of Medicine, NIH, Building 38A, Bethesda
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10.1098/rspb.1991.0081
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Q [生物科学];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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We examine a model evolutionary space consisting of genotypes mapped to their corresponding phenotypes. This mapping is derived from a lattice model for proteins which, despite its highly idealized nature, has been shown to share general properties with real proteins. Large evolutionary networks are observed, with genotypes corresponding to non-lethal phenotypes linked by unit mutational steps. Neutral mutations are necessary for traversing the evolutionary networks, and even one neutral mutation in a genotype can change the phenotypes attainable by a unit mutational step.
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