Coupled Folding and Specific Binding: Fishing for Amphiphilicity
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Coupled Folding and Specific Binding: Fishing for Amphiphilicity
Proteins are uniquely capable of identifying targets with unparalleled selectivity, but, in addition to the precision of the binding phenomenon, nature has the ability to find its targets exceptionally quickly. Transcription factors for instance can bind to a specific sequence of nucleic acids from a soup of similar, but not identical DNA strands, on a timescale of seconds. This is only possibl...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1422-0067
DOI: 10.3390/ijms12031431