La RMN de estado sólido con resolución de milisegundos revela un mecanismo molecular de dos etapas para la formación

Jaekyun Jeon1, Wai-Ming Yau1, Robert Tycko1

  • 1Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0520, United States.

Resumen

La unión de la calmodulina (CaM) al péptido M13 implica interacciones de dominio secuencial. La región N-terminal M13 forma una hélice alfa y entra en contacto con CaM en 2 ms, seguida por la región C-terminal en 8 ms.

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