Predicting evolutionary site variability from structure in viral proteins: buriedness, packing, flexibility, and design
Amir Shahmoradi, Dariya K. Sydykova, Stephanie J. Spielman, Eleisha L. Jackson, Eric T. Dawson, Austin G. Meyer, Claus O. Wilke
The paper evaluates how structural properties predict evolutionary sequence variation in viral proteins and finds that buriedness and packing density are better predictors than flexibility or design-based measures.
bioRxiv · Jul 21, 2014Evolutionary Biology