Probabilistic reconstruction of ancestral protein sequences

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Abstract

Using a maximum-likelihood formalism, we have developed a method with which to reconstruct the sequences of ancestral proteins. Our approach allows the calculation of not only the most probable ancestral sequence but also of the probability of any amino acid at any given node in the evolutionary tree. Because we consider evolution on the amino acid level, we are better able to include effects of evolutionary pressure and take advantage of structural information about the protein through the use of mutation matrices that depend on secondary structure and surface accessibility. The computational complexity of this method scales linearly with the number of homologous proteins used to reconstruct the ancestral sequence.

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Koshi, J. M., & Goldstein, R. A. (1996). Probabilistic reconstruction of ancestral protein sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 42(2), 313–320. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198858

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