An epistatic ratchet constrains the direction of glucocorticoid receptor evolution

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7263, 2009, Pages 515-519

  Bridgham, Jamie T ^a   Ortlund, Eric A ^b   Thornton, Joseph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCGR 1 PROTEIN; ANCGR 2 PROTEIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HORMONE; LIFE HISTORY; MUTATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; NONHUMAN; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HORMONES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349464621     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08249     Document Type: Article

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