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1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

   Local fitness landscape of the green fluorescent protein

   Sarkisyan, Bolotin, Meer et al. · Nature · 2016

   The authors measured fluorescence of tens of thousands of green fluorescent protein variants and found a narrow local fitness landscape, shaped by epistasis, consistent with patterns of divergence between related proteins.

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   1. Unchecked“We show that the fitness landscape of avGFP is narrow, with 3/4 of the derivatives with a single mutation showing reduced fluorescence and half of the derivatives with four mutations being completely non-fluorescent.”
   2. UncheckedIn GFP, interactions between mutations (epistasis) make the fitness landscape narrower, mostly via small harmful mutations cumulatively lowering protein stability.“The narrowness is enhanced by epistasis, which was detected in up to 30% of genotypes with multiple mutations and mostly occurred through the cumulative effect of slightly deleterious mutations causing a threshold-like decrease in protein stability and a concomitant loss of fluorescence.”
   3. UncheckedA model of sequence divergence across hundreds of millions of years predicted how much epistasis appeared in the GFP mutation data, per the authors.“A model of orthologous sequence divergence spanning hundreds of millions of years predicted the extent of epistasis in our data, indicating congruence between the fitness landscape properties at the local and global scales.”