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| Title |
Neutral genetic drift can alter promiscuous protein functions, potentially aiding functional evolution
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Biology Direct, June 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1745-6150-2-17 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jesse D Bloom, Philip A Romero, Zhongyi Lu, Frances H Arnold |
| Abstract |
Many of the mutations accumulated by naturally evolving proteins are neutral in the sense that they do not significantly alter a protein's ability to perform its primary biological function. However, new protein functions evolve when selection begins to favor other, "promiscuous" functions that are incidental to a protein's original biological role. If mutations that are neutral with respect to a protein's primary biological function cause substantial changes in promiscuous functions, these mutations could enable future functional evolution. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 220 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 2% |
| Belgium | 2 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Poland | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 206 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 66 | 30% |
| Researcher | 55 | 25% |
| Student > Master | 18 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 4% |
| Other | 29 | 13% |
| Unknown | 27 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 81 | 37% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 55 | 25% |
| Chemistry | 28 | 13% |
| Engineering | 8 | 4% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 14 | 6% |
| Unknown | 30 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 August 2014.
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#2,271,423
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#101
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#4,842
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