“Sequence space (evolution)”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

In evolutionary biology, sequence space is a way of representing all possible sequences (for a protein, gene or genome).^[1]^[2] The sequence space has one dimension per amino acid or nucleotide in the sequence leading to highly dimensional spaces.^[3]^[4]

Most sequences in sequence space have no function, leaving relatively small regions that are populated by naturally occurring genes.^[5] Each protein sequence is adjacent to all other sequences that can be reached through a single mutation. It has been estimated that the whole functional protein sequence space has been explored by life on the Earth.^[6] Evolution can be visualised as the process of sampling nearby sequences in sequence space and moving to any with improved fitness over the current one.

Representation

A sequence space is usually laid out as a grid. For protein sequence spaces, each residue in the protein is represented by a dimension with 20 possible positions along that axis corresponding to the possible amino acids.^[3]^[4] Hence there are 400 possible dipeptides arranged in a 20x20 space but that expands to 10¹³⁰ for even a small protein of 100 amino acids arranges in a space with 100 dimensions. Although such overwhelming multidimensionality cannot be visualised or represented diagrammatically, it provides a useful abstract model to think about the range of proteins and evolution from one sequence to another.

These highly multidimensional spaces can be compressed to 2 or 3 dimensions using principal component analysis. A fitness landscape is simply a sequence space with an extra vertical axis of fitness added for each sequence.^[7]

Functional sequences in sequence space

Despite the diversity of protein superfamilies, sequence space is extremely sparsely populated by functional proteins. Most random protein sequences have no fold or function.^[8] Enzyme superfamilies, therefore, exist as tiny clusters of active proteins in a vast empty space of non-functional sequence.^[9]^[10]

The density of functional proteins in sequence space, and the proximity of different functions to one another is a key determinant in understanding evolvability.^[11] The degree of interpenetration of two neutral networks of different activities in sequence space will determine how easy it is to evolve from one activity to another. The more overlap between different activities in sequence space, the more cryptic variation for promiscuous activity will be.^[12]

Protein sequence space has been compared to the Library of Babel a theoretical library containing all possible books that are 410 pages long.^[13]^[14] In the Library of Babel, finding any book that made sense was impossible due to the sheer number and lack of order. The same would be true of protein sequences if it were not for natural selection, which has selected out only protein sequences that make sense. Additionally, each protein sequences is surrounded by a set of neighbours (point mutants) that are likely have at least some function.

See also

References

1. ^{{cite journal|last=DePristo|first=Mark A.|author2=Weinreich, Daniel M. |author3=Hartl, Daniel L. |title=Missense meanderings in sequence space: a biophysical view of protein evolution|journal=Nature Reviews Genetics|date=2 August 2005|volume=6|issue=9|pages=678–687|doi=10.1038/nrg1672|pmid=16074985}}
2. ^{{cite journal|last1=Maynard Smith|first1=John|title=Natural Selection and the Concept of a Protein Space|journal=Nature|date=7 February 1970|volume=225|issue=5232|pages=563–564|doi=10.1038/225563a0|pmid=5411867|url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v225/n5232/pdf/225563a0.pdf}}
3. ^¹{{cite journal|last=Bornberg-Bauer|first=E.|author2=Chan, H. S. |title=Modeling evolutionary landscapes: Mutational stability, topology, and superfunnels in sequence space|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|date=14 September 1999|volume=96|issue=19|pages=10689–10694|doi=10.1073/pnas.96.19.10689|pmid=10485887|pmc=17944}}
4. ^¹{{cite journal|last=Cordes|first=MH|author2=Davidson, AR |author3=Sauer, RT |title=Sequence space, folding and protein design.|journal=Current Opinion in Structural Biology|date=Feb 1996|volume=6|issue=1|pages=3–10|pmid=8696970|doi=10.1016/S0959-440X(96)80088-1}}
5. ^{{cite journal|last=Hermes|first=JD|author2=Blacklow, SC |author3=Knowles, JR |title=Searching sequence space by definably random mutagenesis: improving the catalytic potency of an enzyme.|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|date=Jan 1990|volume=87|issue=2|pages=696–700|pmid=1967829|pmc=53332|doi=10.1073/pnas.87.2.696}}
6. ^http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/25/953
7. ^{{cite journal|last=Romero|first=PA|author2=Arnold, FH |title=Exploring protein fitness landscapes by directed evolution.|journal=Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology|date=Dec 2009|volume=10|issue=12|pages=866–76|pmid=19935669|doi=10.1038/nrm2805|pmc=2997618}}
8. ^{{cite journal|last=Keefe|first=AD|author2=Szostak, JW |title=Functional proteins from a random-sequence library.|journal=Nature|date=Apr 5, 2001|volume=410|issue=6829|pages=715–8|pmid=11287961|doi=10.1038/35070613|pmc=4476321}}
9. ^{{cite journal|last=Stemmer|first=Willem P. C.|title=Searching Sequence Space|journal=Bio/Technology|date=June 1995|volume=13|issue=6|pages=549–553|doi=10.1038/nbt0695-549}}
10. ^{{cite journal|last=Bornberg-Bauer|first=E|title=How are model protein structures distributed in sequence space?|journal=Biophysical Journal|date=Nov 1997|volume=73|issue=5|pages=2393–403|pmid=9370433|doi=10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78268-7|pmc=1181141}}
11. ^{{cite journal|last=Bornberg-Bauer|first=E|author2=Huylmans, AK |author3=Sikosek, T |title=How do new proteins arise?|journal=Current Opinion in Structural Biology|date=Jun 2010|volume=20|issue=3|pages=390–6|pmid=20347587|doi=10.1016/j.sbi.2010.02.005}}
12. ^{{cite book|last=Wagner|first=Andreas|title=The origins of evolutionary innovations : a theory of transformative change in living systems|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford [etc.]|isbn=978-0199692590|date=2011-07-14}}
13. ^{{cite journal|last1=Arnold|first1=FH|title=The Library of Maynard-Smith: My Search for Meaning in the protein universe|journal=Advances in Protein Chemistry|date=2000|volume=55|pages=ix–xi|pmid=11050930}}
14. ^{{cite journal|last1=Ostermeier|first1=M|title=Beyond cataloging the Library of Babel.|journal=Chemistry & Biology|date=March 2007|volume=14|issue=3|pages=237–8|pmid=17379136|doi=10.1016/j.chembiol.2007.03.002}}