Protein Flexibility Facilitates Quaternary Structure Assembly and Evolution
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Protein Flexibility Facilitates Quaternary Structure Assembly and Evolution
The intrinsic flexibility of proteins allows them to undergo large conformational fluctuations in solution or upon interaction with other molecules. Proteins also commonly assemble into complexes with diverse quaternary structure arrangements. Here we investigate how the flexibility of individual protein chains influences the assembly and evolution of protein complexes. We find that flexibility...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Biology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1545-7885
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001870