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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 115, Issue 17, Pages 4453-4458Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1718133115
Keywords
epistasis; ancestral protein reconstruction; molecular evolution; protein evolution; heat shock proteins
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- National Institutes of Health [R01GM104397, R01GM121931, R01GM112844, F32GM119205-2, T32-GM007183]
- Government of India Department of Biotechnology Ramalingaswami Fellowship
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
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Interactions among mutations within a protein have the potential to make molecular evolution contingent and irreversible, but the extent to which epistasis actually shaped historical evolutionary trajectories is unclear. To address this question, we experimentally measured how the fitness effects of historical sequence substitutions changed during the billion-year evolutionary history of the heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) ATPase domain beginning from a deep eukaryotic ancestor to modern Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We found a pervasive influence of epistasis. Of 98 derived amino acid states that evolved along this lineage, about half compromise fitness when introduced into the reconstructed ancestral Hsp90. And the vast majority of ancestral states reduce fitness when introduced into the extant S. cerevisiae Hsp90. Overall, more than 75% of historical substitutions were contingent on permissive substitutions that rendered the derived state nondeleterious, became entrenched by subsequent restrictive substitutions that made the ancestral state deleterious, or both. This epistasis was primarily caused by specific interactions among sites rather than a general effect on the protein's tolerance to mutation. Our results show that epistasis continually opened and closed windows of mutational opportunity over evolutionary timescales, producing histories and biological states that reflect the transient internal constraints imposed by the protein's fleeting sequence states.
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