Biophysics of protein evolution and evolutionary protein biophysics

T Sikosek, HS Chan - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The study of molecular evolution at the level of protein-coding genes often entails comparing
large datasets of sequences to infer their evolutionary relationships. Despite the importance …

Protein folding thermodynamics and dynamics: where physics, chemistry, and biology meet

E Shakhnovich - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
As was noted in our recent review, 1 the protein folding field underwent a cyclic
development. Initially, protein folding was viewed as a strictly experimental field belonging to …

New quantitative descriptors of amino acids based on multidimensional scaling of a large number of physical–chemical properties

MS Venkatarajan, W Braun - Molecular modeling annual, 2001 - Springer
We derive new quantitative descriptors for the 20 naturally occurring amino acids based on
multidimensional scaling of 237 physical–chemical properties. We show that a five …

[HTML][HTML] From genotypes to organisms: State-of-the-art and perspectives of a cornerstone in evolutionary dynamics

S Manrubia, JA Cuesta, J Aguirre, SE Ahnert… - Physics of Life …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding how genotypes map onto phenotypes, fitness, and eventually organisms is
arguably the next major missing piece in a fully predictive theory of evolution. We refer to this …

Modeling evolutionary landscapes: mutational stability, topology, and superfunnels in sequence space

E Bornberg-Bauer, HS Chan - Proceedings of the National …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
Random mutations under neutral or near-neutral conditions are studied by considering
plausible evolutionary trajectories on “neutral nets”—ie, collections of sequences …

Rational evolutionary design: the theory of in vitro protein evolution

C Avoigt, S Kauffman, ZG Wang - Advances in protein chemistry, 2001 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Directed evolution uses a combination of powerful search techniques to
generate proteins with the improved properties. The chapter focuses on controlling the …

How many protein sequences fold to a given structure? A coevolutionary analysis

P Tian, RB Best - Biophysical journal, 2017 - cell.com
Quantifying the relationship between protein sequence and structure is key to understanding
the protein universe. A fundamental measure of this relationship is the total number of amino …

Protein design at the interface of the pre-biotic and biotic worlds

LM Longo, M Blaber - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
“Proteogenesis”(the origin of proteins) is a likely key event in the unsolved problem of
biogenesis (the origin of life). The raw material for the very first proteins comprised the …

Thoroughly sampling sequence space: Large‐scale protein design of structural ensembles

SM Larson, JL England, JR Desjarlais… - Protein …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Modeling the inherent flexibility of the protein backbone as part of computational protein
design is necessary to capture the behavior of real proteins and is a prerequisite for the …

Enumerating designing sequences in the HP model

A Irbäck, C Troein - Journal of Biological Physics, 2002 - Springer
The hydrophobic/polar HP model on the square lattice has been widely used toinvestigate
basics of protein folding. In the cases where all designing sequences (sequences with …