Genotype-to-Protein Map and Collective Adaptation in a Viral Population

Biophysica(2022)

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Viral populations are large and highly heterogeneous. Despite the evolutionary relevance of such heterogeneity, statistical approaches to quantifying the extent to which viruses maintain a high genotypic and/or phenotypic diversity have been rarely pursued. Here, we address this issue by analyzing a nucleotide-to-protein sequence map through deep sequencing of populations of the Qβ phage adapted to high temperatures. Tens of thousands of different sequences corresponding to two fragments of the gene coding for the viral replicase were recovered. A diversity analysis of two independent populations consistently revealed that about 40% of the mutations identified caused changes in protein amino acids, leading to an almost complete exploration of the protein neighborhood of (non-silent) mutants at a distance of one. The functional form of the empirical distribution of phenotype abundance agreed with analytical calculations that assumed random mutations in the nucleotide sequence. Our results concur with the idea that viral populations maintain a high diversity as an efficient adaptive mechanism and support the hypothesis of universality for a lognormal distribution of phenotype abundances in biologically meaningful genotype–phenotype maps, highlighting the relevance of entropic effects in molecular evolution.
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viral population,collective adaptation,genotype-to-protein
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