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A protein evolution model with independent sites that reproduces site-specific amino acid distributions from the Protein Data Bank

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dc.creator Bastolla, Ugo
dc.creator Porto, Markus
dc.creator Román, Eduardo H.
dc.creator Vendruscolo, Michele
dc.date 2007-05-08T15:37:05Z
dc.date 2007-05-08T15:37:05Z
dc.date 2006-05-31
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T00:57:12Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T00:57:12Z
dc.identifier BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:43
dc.identifier 1471-2148
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/1437
dc.identifier 10.1186/1471-2148-6-43
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1437
dc.description [Background] Since thermodynamic stability is a global property of proteins that has to be conserved during evolution, the selective pressure at a given site of a protein sequence depends on the amino acids present at other sites. However, models of molecular evolution that aim at reconstructing the evolutionary history of macromolecules become computationally intractable if such correlations between sites are explicitly taken into account.
dc.description [Results] We introduce an evolutionary model with sites evolving independently under a global constraint on the conservation of structural stability. This model consists of a selection process, which depends on two hydrophobicity parameters that can be computed from protein sequences without any fit, and a mutation process for which we consider various models. It reproduces quantitatively the results of Structurally Constrained Neutral (SCN) simulations of protein evolution in which the stability of the native state is explicitly computed and conserved. We then compare the predicted site-specific amino acid distributions with those sampled from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). The parameters of the mutation model, whose number varies between zero and five, are fitted from the data. The mean correlation coefficient between predicted and observed site-specific amino acid distributions is larger than <r> = 0.70 for a mutation model with no free parameters and no genetic code. In contrast, considering only the mutation process with no selection yields a mean correlation coefficient of <r> = 0.56 with three fitted parameters. The mutation model that best fits the data takes into account increased mutation rate at CpG dinucleotides, yielding <r> = 0.90 with five parameters.
dc.description [Conclusion] The effective selection process that we propose reproduces well amino acid distributions as observed in the protein sequences in the PDB. Its simplicity makes it very promising for likelihood calculations in phylogenetic studies. Interestingly, in this approach the mutation process influences the effective selection process, i.e. selection and mutation must be entangled in order to obtain effectively independent sites. This interdependence between mutation and selection reflects the deep influence that mutation has on the evolutionary process: The bias in the mutation influences the thermodynamic properties of the evolving proteins, in agreement with comparative studies of bacterial proteomes, and it also influences the rate of accepted mutations.
dc.description Peer reviewed
dc.language eng
dc.publisher BioMed Central
dc.relation Publisher’s version
dc.rights openAccess
dc.title A protein evolution model with independent sites that reproduces site-specific amino acid distributions from the Protein Data Bank
dc.type Artículo


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