Protein Structural Information and Evolutionary Landscape by In Vitro Evolution.

ABSTRACT: Protein structure is tightly intertwined with function according to the laws of evolution. Understanding how structure determines function has been the aim of structural biology for decades. Here, we have wondered instead whether it is possible to exploit the function for which a protein was evolutionary selected to gain information on protein structure and on the landscape explored during the early stages of molecular and natural evolution. To answer to this question, we developed a new methodology, which we named CAMELS (Coupling Analysis by Molecular Evolution Library Sequencing), that is able to obtain the in vitro evolution of a protein from an artificial selection based on function. We were able to observe with CAMELS many features of the TEM-1 beta-lactamase local fold exclusively b

SUBMITTER: Fantini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7086169 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature