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HIV Protease and Integrase Empirical Substitution Models of Evolution: Protein-Specific Models Outperform Generalist Models
Diverse phylogenetic methods require a substitution model of evolution that should mimic, as accurately as possible, the real substitution process. At the protein level, empirical substitution models have traditionally been based on a large number of different proteins from particular taxonomic leve...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8774313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35052404 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes13010061 |
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author | Del Amparo, Roberto Arenas, Miguel |
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description | Diverse phylogenetic methods require a substitution model of evolution that should mimic, as accurately as possible, the real substitution process. At the protein level, empirical substitution models have traditionally been based on a large number of different proteins from particular taxonomic levels. However, these models assume that all of the proteins of a taxonomic level evolve under the same substitution patterns. We believe that this assumption is highly unrealistic and should be relaxed by considering protein-specific substitution models that account for protein-specific selection processes. In order to test this hypothesis, we inferred and evaluated four new empirical substitution models for the protease and integrase of HIV and other viruses. We found that these models more accurately fit, compared with any of the currently available empirical substitution models, the evolutionary process of these proteins. We conclude that evolutionary inferences from protein sequences are more accurate if they are based on protein-specific substitution models rather than taxonomic-specific (generalist) substitution models. We also present four new empirical substitution models of protein evolution that could be useful for phylogenetic inferences of viral protease and integrase. |
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spelling | pubmed-87743132022-01-21 HIV Protease and Integrase Empirical Substitution Models of Evolution: Protein-Specific Models Outperform Generalist Models Del Amparo, Roberto Arenas, Miguel Genes (Basel) Article Diverse phylogenetic methods require a substitution model of evolution that should mimic, as accurately as possible, the real substitution process. At the protein level, empirical substitution models have traditionally been based on a large number of different proteins from particular taxonomic levels. However, these models assume that all of the proteins of a taxonomic level evolve under the same substitution patterns. We believe that this assumption is highly unrealistic and should be relaxed by considering protein-specific substitution models that account for protein-specific selection processes. In order to test this hypothesis, we inferred and evaluated four new empirical substitution models for the protease and integrase of HIV and other viruses. We found that these models more accurately fit, compared with any of the currently available empirical substitution models, the evolutionary process of these proteins. We conclude that evolutionary inferences from protein sequences are more accurate if they are based on protein-specific substitution models rather than taxonomic-specific (generalist) substitution models. We also present four new empirical substitution models of protein evolution that could be useful for phylogenetic inferences of viral protease and integrase. MDPI 2021-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8774313/ /pubmed/35052404 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes13010061 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Del Amparo, Roberto Arenas, Miguel HIV Protease and Integrase Empirical Substitution Models of Evolution: Protein-Specific Models Outperform Generalist Models |
title | HIV Protease and Integrase Empirical Substitution Models of Evolution: Protein-Specific Models Outperform Generalist Models |
title_full | HIV Protease and Integrase Empirical Substitution Models of Evolution: Protein-Specific Models Outperform Generalist Models |
title_fullStr | HIV Protease and Integrase Empirical Substitution Models of Evolution: Protein-Specific Models Outperform Generalist Models |
title_full_unstemmed | HIV Protease and Integrase Empirical Substitution Models of Evolution: Protein-Specific Models Outperform Generalist Models |
title_short | HIV Protease and Integrase Empirical Substitution Models of Evolution: Protein-Specific Models Outperform Generalist Models |
title_sort | hiv protease and integrase empirical substitution models of evolution: protein-specific models outperform generalist models |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8774313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35052404 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes13010061 |
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