Proteins Evolution Upon Point Mutations
The primary aim of this work is to explore how proteins point mutations impact their marginal stability and, hence, their evolvability. With this purpose, we show that the use of four classic notions, namely, those from Leibniz & Kant (1768), Maynard Smith (1970), Einstein & Infeld (1961), and Anfinsen (1973), is sufficient for a better understanding of the protein-evolution and, consequently, to determine the factors that could control it. The preliminary results -- without considering epistasis effects explicitly -- indicate that the protein marginal-stability change upon point mutations provides the necessary and sufficient information to describe, through a Boltzmann factor, the evolution of the amide hydrogen-exchange protection factors. This finding is of paramount importance because it illustrates the impact of point mutations on both the protein marginal-stability and the ensemble of folded conformations coexisting with the native state and, in the presence of metamorphism, on the propensity for the appearance of new folds and functions.
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