Fitness landscape of substrate-adaptive mutations in evolved amino acid-polyamine-organocation transporters
The emergence of new protein functions is crucial for the evolution of organisms. This process has been extensively researched for soluble enzymes, but it is largely unexplored for membrane transporters, even though the ability to acquire new nutrients from a changing environment requires evolvabili...
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2024-06-01
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/93971 |