Un intermedio de plegamiento de proteínas transitorio y poco poblado con resolución atómica

Dmitry M Korzhnev1, Tomasz L Religa, Wiktor Banachewicz

  • 1Department of Molecular Genetics, the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 11, 2010
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Resumen

Los investigadores determinaron la estructura atómica de un intermediario de plegamiento de proteínas transitorio utilizando la espectroscopia de dispersión de relajación por resonancia magnética nuclear. Esto revela elementos no nativos que obstaculizan la conformación nativa, ofreciendo un nuevo método para estudiar tales estados proteicos evasivos.

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