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most citedWhy highly expressed proteins evolve slowly

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6 papers

q-bio.CB2019★ 17 cited

When Two are Better than One: Modeling the Mechanisms of Antibody Mixtures

Tal Einav, Jesse D Bloom

It is difficult to predict how antibodies will behave when mixed together, even after each has been independently characterized. Here, we present a statistical mechanical model for…

q-bio.PE2007★ 172 cited

Neutral genetic drift can aid functional protein evolution

Jesse D Bloom, Philip A Romero, Zhongyi Lu +1

BACKGROUND: Many of the mutations accumulated by naturally evolving proteins are neutral in the sense that they do not significantly alter a protein's ability to perform its primar…

q-bio.PE2007★ 123 cited

Evolution favors protein mutational robustness in sufficiently large populations

Jesse D. Bloom, Zhongyi Lu, David Chen +3

BACKGROUND: An important question is whether evolution favors properties such as mutational robustness or evolvability that do not directly benefit any individual, but can influenc…

q-bio.PE2006★ 160 cited

Thermodynamics of Neutral Protein Evolution

Jesse D Bloom, Alpan Raval, Claus O Wilke

Naturally evolving proteins gradually accumulate mutations while continuing to fold to thermodynamically stable native structures. This process of neutral protein evolution is an i…

q-bio.PE2005★ 883 cited

Why highly expressed proteins evolve slowly

D. Allan Drummond, Jesse D. Bloom, Christoph Adami +2

Much recent work has explored molecular and population-genetic constraints on the rate of protein sequence evolution. The best predictor of evolutionary rate is expression level, f…

q-bio.BM2005★ 1 cited

Inferring interactions from combinatorial protein libraries

Jeffrey B. Endelman, Jesse D. Bloom, Christopher R. Otey +2

Proteins created by combinatorial methods in vitro are an important source of information for understanding sequence-structure-function relationships. Alignments of folded proteins…