Large phenotype jumps in biomolecular evolution

Details Large phenotype jumps in biomolecular evolution Large phenotype jumps in biomolecular evolution

2003-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0310157v2

Phys. Rev. E 69 (2004) 031908.1-7

Physics

Biological Physics

to appear in Phys. Rev. E; 7 pages, 6 figures; longer discussion in VII, new fig. 6

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.69.031908

By defining the phenotype of a biopolymer by its active three-dimensional shape, and its genotype by its primary sequence, we propose a model that predicts and characterizes the statistical distribution of a population of biopolymers with a specific phenotype, that originated from a given genotypic sequence by a single mutational event. Depending on the ratio g0 that characterizes the spread of potential energies of the mutated population with respect to temperature, three different statistical regimes have been identified. We suggest that biopolymers found in nature are in a critical regime with g0 in the range 1-6, corresponding to a broad, but not too broad, phenotypic distribution resembling a truncated Levy flight. Thus the biopolymer phenotype can be considerably modified in just a few mutations. The proposed model is in good agreement with the experimental distribution of activities determined for a population of single mutants of a group I ribozyme.

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