Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
In vivo functional phenotypes from a computational epistatic model of evolution
S. Alvarez, C. M. Nartey, N. Mercado…·F. Morcos
The paper develops a computational model to evolve functional protein variants in E. coli, showing that epistatic constraints can generate active beta-lactamase variants with enhanced activity.
DOI 10.1073/pnas.2308895121