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text: Understanding the relation between genotype and phenotype remains a major
challenge. The difficulty of predicting individual mutation effects, and particularly
the interactions between them, has prevented the development of a comprehensive
theory that links genotypic changes to their phenotypic effects. We show that
a general thermodynamic framework for gene regulation, based on a biophysical
understanding of protein-DNA binding, accurately predicts the sign of epistasis
in a canonical cis-regulatory element consisting of overlapping RNA polymerase
and repressor binding sites. Sign and magnitude of individual mutation effects
are sufficient to predict the sign of epistasis and its environmental dependence.
Thus, the thermodynamic model offers the correct null prediction for epistasis
between mutations across DNA-binding sites. Our results indicate that a predictive
theory for the effects of cis-regulatory mutations is possible from first principles,
as long as the essential molecular mechanisms and the constraints these impose
on a biological system are accounted for.
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- first_name: Tiago
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- first_name: Nicholas H
full_name: Barton, Nicholas H
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last_name: Barton
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- first_name: Jonathan P
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- first_name: Calin C
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citation:
ama: Lagator M, Paixao T, Barton NH, Bollback JP, Guet CC. On the mechanistic nature
of epistasis in a canonical cis-regulatory element. eLife. 2017;6. doi:10.7554/eLife.25192
apa: Lagator, M., Paixao, T., Barton, N. H., Bollback, J. P., & Guet, C. C.
(2017). On the mechanistic nature of epistasis in a canonical cis-regulatory element.
ELife. eLife Sciences Publications. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.25192
chicago: Lagator, Mato, Tiago Paixao, Nicholas H Barton, Jonathan P Bollback, and
Calin C Guet. “On the Mechanistic Nature of Epistasis in a Canonical Cis-Regulatory
Element.” ELife. eLife Sciences Publications, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.25192.
ieee: M. Lagator, T. Paixao, N. H. Barton, J. P. Bollback, and C. C. Guet, “On the
mechanistic nature of epistasis in a canonical cis-regulatory element,” eLife,
vol. 6. eLife Sciences Publications, 2017.
ista: Lagator M, Paixao T, Barton NH, Bollback JP, Guet CC. 2017. On the mechanistic
nature of epistasis in a canonical cis-regulatory element. eLife. 6, e25192.
mla: Lagator, Mato, et al. “On the Mechanistic Nature of Epistasis in a Canonical
Cis-Regulatory Element.” ELife, vol. 6, e25192, eLife Sciences Publications,
2017, doi:10.7554/eLife.25192.
short: M. Lagator, T. Paixao, N.H. Barton, J.P. Bollback, C.C. Guet, ELife 6 (2017).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:49:23Z
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