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Few framings of protein space consider how higher-level protein phenotypes can be described in terms of their biophysical dimensions, nor do they rigorously interrogate how forces like epistasis\u2014describing the nonlinear interaction between mutations and their phenotypic consequences\u2014manifest across these dimensions. In this study, we deconstruct a low-dimensional protein space of a bacterial enzyme (dihydrofolate reductase; DHFR) into \u201csubspaces\u201d corresponding to a set of kinetic and thermodynamic traits [(\n                  <jats:italic>\n                    k\n                    <jats:sub>cat<\/jats:sub>\n                    , K\n                    <jats:sub>M<\/jats:sub>\n                  <\/jats:italic>\n                  ,\n                  <jats:italic>\n                    K\n                    <jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub>\n                  <\/jats:italic>\n                  , and\n                  <jats:italic>\n                    T\n                    <jats:sub>m<\/jats:sub>\n                  <\/jats:italic>\n                  (melting temperature)]. We then examine how three mutations (eight alleles in total) display pleiotropy in their interactions across these subspaces. We extend this approach to examine protein spaces across three orthologous DHFR enzymes (\n                  <jats:italic>Escherichia coli, Listeria grayi<\/jats:italic>\n                  , and\n                  <jats:italic>Chlamydia muridarum<\/jats:italic>\n                  ), adding a genotypic context dimension through which epistasis occurs across subspaces. In doing so, we reveal that protein space is a deceptively complex notion, and that the process of protein evolution and engineering should consider how interactions between amino acid substitutions manifest across different phenotypic subspaces.\n                <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1101\/2023.04.09.535490","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,10]],"date-time":"2023-04-10T00:25:14Z","timestamp":1681086314000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Epistasis meets pleiotropy in shaping biophysical protein subspaces associated with antimicrobial resistance"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1581-8345","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"C. 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