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SUBMITTER: Perez-Jimenez R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2555999 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of biological chemistry 20080807 40
Understanding how the catalytic mechanisms of enzymes are optimized through evolution remains a major challenge in molecular biology. The concept of co-evolution implicates that compensatory mutations occur to preserve the structure and function of proteins. We have combined statistical analysis of protein sequences with the sensitivity of single molecule force-clamp spectroscopy to probe how catalysis is affected by structurally distant correlated mutations in Escherichia coli thioredoxin. Our ...[more]