Substrate inhibition imposes fitness penalty at high protein stability
B. V. Adkar, S. Bhattacharyya, A. I. Gilson, W. Zhang, E. I. Shakhnovich
The paper shows that mutations increasing protein stability in E. coli adenylate kinase lead to substrate inhibition by AMP, reducing enzyme activity and fitness.
bioRxiv · Dec 19, 2018Biophysics