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Thermodynamics of Membrane Protein Folding Measured by Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Published on: April 28, 2011
Machinery of protein folding and unfolding
Xiaodong Zhang1, Fabienne Beuron, Paul S Freemont
1Centre for Structural Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Flowers Building, South Kensington, SW7 2AZ, London, UK. xiaodong.zhang@ic.ac.uk
Abstract:
During the past two years, a large amount of biochemical, biophysical and low- to high-resolution structural data have provided mechanistic insights into the machinery of protein folding and unfolding. It has emerged that dual functionality in terms of folding and unfolding might exist for some systems. The majority of folding/unfolding machines adopt oligomeric ring structures in a cooperative fashion and utilise the conformational changes induced by ATP binding/hydrolysis for their specific functions.
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