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Divergence, recombination and retention of functionality during protein evolution.

Yanlong O Xu1, Randall W Hall, Richard A Goldstein

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.

Human Genomics
|October 4, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Protein structure significantly impacts how protein sequences evolve and retain function. Some structures with many sequence options evolve rapidly and maintain functionality, unlike those with fewer options.

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Area of Science:

  • Biophysics
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • Understanding protein sequence evolution in relation to structure and function remains a challenge.
  • Predicting structural and functional contexts from primary sequences and analyzing residue-level evolutionary patterns are difficult.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To simulate protein evolution within structural and functional contexts using lattice models.
  • To investigate how protein structure characteristics influence the retention of functionality in homologous recombinants after population divergence.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing lattice models of proteins and ligands to simulate protein evolution.
  • Incorporating thermodynamic features of protein stability and population dynamics into simulations.
  • Employing an 'ab initio evolution' approach where fitness distributions arise from physical principles.

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Main Results:

  • Protein structure characteristics strongly influence recombinant functionality.
  • Exceptional protein structures with numerous sequence options evolve rapidly and retain functionality even after significant divergence.
  • Common structures with limited sequence options evolve slowly, and their recombinant fitness declines sharply with divergence.

Conclusions:

  • Protein structure plays a critical role in shaping evolutionary trajectories and functional retention.
  • The findings have implications for understanding viral evolution, speciation, and directed evolution experiments.
  • The analysis can inform improved methods for approximating folding probabilities in complex systems.