Protein robustness promotes evolutionary innovations on large evolutionary time-scales

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1643, 2008, Pages 1595-1602

  Ferrada, Evandro ^a,c   Wagner, Andreas ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evolutionary innovations; Functional diversity; Protein designability; Robustness

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 44949206468     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1617     Document Type: Article

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