Protein stability imposes limits on organism complexity and speed of molecular evolution.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on October 03, 2007

Authors

Konstantin B Zeldovich1, Peiqiu Chen, Eugene I Shakhnovich

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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