期刊
GENETICS
卷 214, 期 4, 页码 1047-1057出版社
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.120.302815
关键词
fitness landscape; sign epistasis; pleiotropy; computational complexity; protein folding; hydrophobic zipping
资金
- John Templeton Foundation [60814]
- Environmental Resilience Institute at Indiana University
- Lilly Endowment, Inc.
- Indiana METACyt Initiative
The fitness landscapes of genetic sequences are high-dimensional and rugged due to sign epistasis. Empirical limitations and the abstractness of many landscape models limit our understanding of how ruggedness shapes the mode and tempo... The fitness landscapes of genetic sequences are characterized by high dimensionality and ruggedness due to sign epistasis. Ascending from low to high fitness on such landscapes can be difficult because adaptive trajectories get stuck at low-fitness local peaks. Compounding matters, recent theoretical arguments have proposed that extremely long, winding adaptive paths may be required to reach even local peaks: a maze-like landscape topography. The extent to which peaks and mazes shape the mode and tempo of evolution is poorly understood, due to empirical limitations and the abstractness of many landscape models. We explore the prevalence, scale, and evolutionary consequences of landscape mazes in a biophysically grounded computational model of protein evolution that captures the frustration between stability and aggregation propensity. Our stability-aggregation landscape exhibits extensive sign epistasis and local peaks galore. Although this frequently obstructs adaptive ascent to high fitness and virtually eliminates reproducibility of evolutionary outcomes, many adaptive paths do successfully complete the ascent from low to high fitness, with hydrophobicity a critical mediator of success. These successful paths exhibit maze-like properties on a global landscape scale, in which taking an indirect path helps to avoid low-fitness local peaks. This delicate balance of hard but possible adaptation could occur more broadly in other biological settings where competing interactions and frustration are important.
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