El rápido y el lento: doblar y atrapar a λ6-85

Maxim B Prigozhin1, Martin Gruebele

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.

Resumen

El plegamiento rápido de las proteínas puede ocultar las fases cinéticas lentas, como se ha visto en los estudios de fragmentos de represores lambda. Mientras que la proteína de tipo salvaje se pliega rápidamente, los mutantes estables y las condiciones de desnaturalización revelan trampas de milisegundos, lo que sugiere una protección cinética contra la formación de amiloides.

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