B - 22 CHARMM - Molecular Dynamics Collaborators

To do its job, whatever it may be among the thousands of life-sustaining jobs proteins do, this dangly chain forged from hundreds of amino acids must fold into just the right threedimensional configuration. It happens within seconds, a long time in protein biochemistry, and the result is a complex bundle of twists and turns with clefts and notches precisely sculpted to allow the protein to attach and release other molecules. Function follows form, and when the form is right, the protein goes to work.