Observar una proteína mientras funciona con una cristalografía de rayos X con resolución de tiempo de 150 segundos

Friedrich Schotte1, Manho Lim, Timothy A Jackson

  • 1Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 21, 2003
PubMed
Resumen

Observamos los rápidos cambios estructurales de la proteína mutante de la mioglobina (Mb) L29F utilizando difracción de rayos X. Este mutante muestra una vida intermedia de CO 1000 veces más corta que la del tipo salvaje Mb, revelando el movimiento dinámico de la proteína.

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