Showing posts with label connectivity. Show all posts
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Friday, July 8, 2016

Local Fitness Landscape Mapped Out for Green Fluorescent Protein

Sharp peaks.


Cornelius Hunter quotes a recent article in Nature about GFP:
We were really surprised when we finally had a chance to look at exactly how the interactions between mutations occur. We also did not expect that almost all the mutations that are only slightly damaging on their own can destroy fluorescence completely when combined together.*