Protein Conformational Switches: From Nature to Design
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Protein conformational switches: from nature to design.
Protein conformational switches alter their shape upon receiving an input signal, such as ligand binding, chemical modification, or change in environment. The apparent simplicity of this transformation--which can be carried out by a molecule as small as a thousand atoms or so--belies its critical importance to the life of the cell as well as its capacity for engineering by humans. In the realm ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chemistry - A European Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0947-6539
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201200348