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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 20, 期 4, 页码 484-490出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg059
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gene duplication; gene function; adaptive evolution; amino acid replacement; conserved sites
We have performed a large-scale analysis of amino acid sequence evolution after gene duplication by comparing evolution after gene duplication with evolution after speciation in over 1,800 phylogenetic trees constructed from manually curated alignments of protein domains downloaded from the PFAM database. The site-specific rate of evolution is significantly altered by gene duplication. A significant increase in the proportion of amino acid substitutions at constrained (slowly evolving) sites after duplication was observed. An increase in the proportion of replacements at normally constrained amino acid sites could result from relaxation of purifying selective pressure. However, the proportion of amino acid replacements involving radical changes in amino acid properties after duplication does not appear to be significantly increased by relaxed selective pressure. The increased proportion of replacements at constrained sites was observed over a relatively large range of protein change (up to 25% amino acid replacements per site). These findings have implications for our understanding of the nature of evolution after duplication and may help to shed light on the evolution of novel protein functions through gene duplication.
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