In addition to the canonical loss-of-function mutations, mutations in proteins may additionally result in gain-of-function through the binary activation of cryptic “structural capacitance elements.” Our previous bioinformatic analysis allowed us to propose a new mechanism of protein evolution – structural capacitance – that arises via the generation of new elements of microstructure upon mutations that cause a disorder-to-order (D→O) transition in previously disordered regions of proteins. Here we propose that the D→O transition is a necessary follow-on from expected early codon-anticodon and tRNA acceptor stem-amino acid usage, via the accumulation of structural capacitance elements – reservoirs of disorder in proteins. We develop this argument further to posit that structural capacitance is an inherent consequence of the evolution of the genetic code.
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Buckle, A. M., & Buckle, M. (2019). Ribosome Evolution and Structural Capacitance. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2019.00123
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