Encontrar el pliegue más adecuado: usando el registro evolutivo para diseñar nuevas proteínas

Robert G Smock1, Lila M Gierasch

  • 1Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 01003, USA.

Cell
|September 24, 2005
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores diseñaron con éxito dominios WW artificiales, un objetivo clave en la ingeniería de proteínas. Su novedoso método de análisis de acoplamiento estadístico aprovecha los datos evolutivos para predecir patrones de aminoácidos para el diseño de proteínas.

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