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SUBMITTER: Ramachandran S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3017104 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ramachandran Srinivas S Vogel Lisa L Strahl Brian D BD Dokholyan Nikolay V NV
PLoS computational biology 20110106 1
Determining the forces that conserve amino acid positions in proteins across species is a fundamental pursuit of molecular evolution. Evolutionary conservation is driven by either a protein's function or its thermodynamic stability. Highly conserved histone proteins offer a platform to evaluate these driving forces. While the conservation of histone H3 and H4 "tail" domains and surface residues are driven by functional importance, the driving force behind the conservation of buried histone resid ...[more]