PAST PROJECTS Mechanical control of Renilla Luciferase
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چکیده
Enzymes are deformable molecules: the molecular structure can exist in essentially a continuum of different conformations. These are accessible by applying mechanical stress to the molecule. Mechanics then provides a general molecular mechanism to modulate enzymatic reactions, by applying mechanical stresses which deform the enzyme. There are approximately 10 known different enzymatic reactions; each one can in principle be thus subjected to molecular control !
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