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HX and Me: Understanding Allostery, Folding, and Protein Machines
1Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA;
Abstract:
My accidental encounter with protein hydrogen exchange (HX) at its very beginning and its continued development through my scientific career have led us to a series of advances in HX measurement, interpretation, and cutting edge biophysical applications. After some thoughts about how life brought me there, I take the opportunity to reflect on our early studies of allosteric structure and energy change in hemoglobin, the still-current protein folding problem, and our most recent forward-looking studies on protein machines.
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