Fuzzy complexes: Specific binding without complete folding
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Fuzzy complexes: Specific binding without complete folding.
Specific molecular recognition is assumed to require a well-defined set of contacts and devoid of conformational and interaction ambiguities. Growing experimental evidence demonstrates however, that structural multiplicity or dynamic disorder can be retained in protein complexes, termed as fuzziness. Fuzzy regions establish alternative contacts between specific partners usually via transient in...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: FEBS Letters
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0014-5793
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.07.022