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Error catastrophe and antiviral strategy

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Eigen, Manfred·2002·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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  • Selection in quasi-species systems acts on the entire quasi-species, not on individual mutants.

    “Selection in these systems thus does not act on the level of individual mutants, but rather on the entire quasi-species [8–10].”

    From Towards open-ended evolution in self-replicating molecular systems (2017) · cites this paper as [10]

    The paper describes the whole mutant distribution as behaving ‘quasi’ as a single species, supporting the quasispecies-level part of the claim. But in its discussion of the error threshold, it says natural selection rates each mutant’s contribution to quasispecies reproduction and that selectivity differs among mutant classes. The claim’s exclusion of selection at the mutant level is therefore not supported. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Increasing the mutation rate to precipitate an error catastrophe appears to be a practical anti-retroviral strategy.

    “Indeed, increasing the mutation rate to precipitate an error catastrophe appears to be a practical anti-retroviral strategy (14–16).”

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Authors
Eigen, M.
Affiliations
Max Planck Society (DE)
Corresponding author
Eigen, Manfred
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2002-10-07
Volume
99
Issue
21
Pages
13374-13376
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W1981105411
Cited by
339
References
19
Citations by year
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FWCI
7.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Keywords
error catastrophe, antiviral strategies, viral replication, error threshold, viral quasispecies
MeSH terms
Antiviral Agents, DNA Replication, Models, Biological, Mutation, Virus Replication, Viruses, Virus Physiological Phenomena

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