Relacionar las estructuras tridimensionales con las redes de proteínas proporciona conocimientos evolutivos.

Philip M Kim1, Long J Lu, Yu Xia

  • 1Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 23, 2006
PubMed
Resumen

Los estudios de redes de proteínas a menudo pasan por alto los detalles estructurales. Esta investigación utiliza datos de resolución atómica para mostrar que distintas interfaces de unión, no sólo la posición de la red, explican la importancia y evolución de las proteínas, revelando nuevos mecanismos de crecimiento de la red.

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