On promiscuity, changing environments and the possibility of replaying the molecular tape of life

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 445, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sanchez Ruiz, Jose M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Changing environmental conditions; Epistasis; Molecular evolution; Mutational trajectory; Organism fitness; Protein promiscuity

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFOTAXIME; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPISTASIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; AZATHIOPRINE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84862495880     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20120806     Document Type: Note

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