Evolutionary Dynamics of a Lattice Dimer: a Toy Model for Stability vs. Affinity Trade-offs in Proteins
Abstract
Understanding how a stressor applied on a biological system shapes its evolution is key to achieving targeted evolutionary control. Here we present a toy model of two interacting lattice proteins to quantify the response to the selective pressure defined by the binding energy. We generate sequence data of proteins and study how the sequence and structural properties of dimers are affected by the applied selective pressure, both during the evolutionary process and in the stationary regime. In particular we show that internal contacts of native structures lose strength, while inter-structure contacts are strengthened due to the folding-binding competition. We discuss how dimerization is achieved through enhanced mutability on the interacting faces, and how the designability of each native structure changes upon introduction of the stressor.
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@article{arxiv.2303.12431,
title = {Evolutionary Dynamics of a Lattice Dimer: a Toy Model for Stability vs. Affinity Trade-offs in Proteins},
author = {Emanuele Loffredo and Elisabetta Vesconi and Rostam Razban and Orit Peleg and Eugene Shakhnovich and Simona Cocco and Rémi Monasson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12431},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
New mutational protocol based on the background amino acids distribution. Updated Fig. 7-8. Added new Fig. 14 that shows residual frustration on couplings before and after dimerization