Diseño de proteínas mediante el patrón binario de aminoácidos polares y no polares

S Kamtekar1, J M Schiffer, H Xiong

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, NJ 08544.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 10, 1993
PubMed
Resumen

Los científicos desarrollaron una nueva estrategia de diseño de proteínas especificando solo las posiciones de residuos hidrofóbicos e hidrofílicos. Este método creó con éxito proteínas funcionales de haces de cuatro hélices, lo que demuestra que un simple código polar / no polar guía el plegamiento de las proteínas.

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