MBE Advance Access originally published online on August 10, 2006
Molecular Biology and Evolution 2006 23(11):2131-2133; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl086
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Systematically Assessing the Influence of 3-Dimensional Structural Context on the Molecular Evolution of Mammalian Proteomes

* Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
Committee on Genetics, University of Chicago
E-mail: blahn{at}bsd.uchicago.edu.
The 3-dimensional (3D) structural context of amino acid residues in a protein could significantly impact the level of selective constraint on the residues. Here, by analyzing 767 mammalian proteins, we systematically investigate how various 3D structural contexts influence selective constraint. The structural contexts we examined include solvent accessibility, secondary structure, and intramolecular residueresidue interactions. Through this analysis, we offer quantitative information on how 3D structural contexts affect the level of selective constraint.
Key Words: proteome evolution 3-dimensional structure selective constraint
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