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abstract:
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  text: 'Most phenotypes are determined by molecular systems composed of specifically
    interacting molecules. However, unlike for individual components, little is known
    about the distributions of mutational effects of molecular systems as a whole.
    We ask how the distribution of mutational effects of a transcriptional regulatory
    system differs from the distributions of its components, by first independently,
    and then simultaneously, mutating a transcription factor and the associated promoter
    it represses. We find that the system distribution exhibits increased phenotypic
    variation compared to individual component distributions - an effect arising from
    intermolecular epistasis between the transcription factor and its DNA-binding
    site. In large part, this epistasis can be qualitatively attributed to the structure
    of the transcriptional regulatory system and could therefore be a common feature
    in prokaryotes. Counter-intuitively, intermolecular epistasis can alleviate the
    constraints of individual components, thereby increasing phenotypic variation
    that selection could act on and facilitating adaptive evolution. '
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- first_name: Mato
  full_name: Lagator, Mato
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  last_name: Lagator
- first_name: Srdjan
  full_name: Sarikas, Srdjan
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  last_name: Sarikas
- first_name: Hande
  full_name: Acar, Hande
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  last_name: Acar
  orcid: 0000-0003-1986-9753
- first_name: Jonathan P
  full_name: Bollback, Jonathan P
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  last_name: Bollback
  orcid: 0000-0002-4624-4612
- first_name: Calin C
  full_name: Guet, Calin C
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  last_name: Guet
  orcid: 0000-0001-6220-2052
citation:
  ama: Lagator M, Sarikas S, Acar H, Bollback JP, Guet CC. Regulatory network structure
    determines patterns of intermolecular epistasis. <i>eLife</i>. 2017;6. doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.28921">10.7554/eLife.28921</a>
  apa: Lagator, M., Sarikas, S., Acar, H., Bollback, J. P., &#38; Guet, C. C. (2017).
    Regulatory network structure determines patterns of intermolecular epistasis.
    <i>ELife</i>. eLife Sciences Publications. <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.28921">https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.28921</a>
  chicago: Lagator, Mato, Srdjan Sarikas, Hande Acar, Jonathan P Bollback, and Calin
    C Guet. “Regulatory Network Structure Determines Patterns of Intermolecular Epistasis.”
    <i>ELife</i>. eLife Sciences Publications, 2017. <a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.28921">https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.28921</a>.
  ieee: M. Lagator, S. Sarikas, H. Acar, J. P. Bollback, and C. C. Guet, “Regulatory
    network structure determines patterns of intermolecular epistasis,” <i>eLife</i>,
    vol. 6. eLife Sciences Publications, 2017.
  ista: Lagator M, Sarikas S, Acar H, Bollback JP, Guet CC. 2017. Regulatory network
    structure determines patterns of intermolecular epistasis. eLife. 6, e28921.
  mla: Lagator, Mato, et al. “Regulatory Network Structure Determines Patterns of
    Intermolecular Epistasis.” <i>ELife</i>, vol. 6, e28921, eLife Sciences Publications,
    2017, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.28921">10.7554/eLife.28921</a>.
  short: M. Lagator, S. Sarikas, H. Acar, J.P. Bollback, C.C. Guet, ELife 6 (2017).
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:47:14Z
date_published: 2017-11-13T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-11T07:40:30Z
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title: Regulatory network structure determines patterns of intermolecular epistasis
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