Biología estructural: análisis de la cooperatividad de plegamiento de proteínas

Zheng Zhou1, Yawen Bai

  • 1Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Building 37, Room 6114E, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. yawen@helix.nih.gov

Nature
|February 16, 2007
PubMed
Resumen

El plegamiento de pequeñas proteínas suele ser cooperativo. Sin embargo, un nuevo análisis sugiere que la proteína Naf-BBL rediseñada se despliega a través de un proceso de dos estados, consistente con los principios de plegado todo o nada.

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