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Ella Livnah1, Ohad Suss1, Adi Rogel1

  • 1Department of Chemical and Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Nature chemical biology
|February 5, 2026
PubMed
概括

研究人员开发了诱导聚合的仿真体 (PINCHs),通过利用它们的对称性来准同质蛋白. 这种新的策略避免了辅助蛋白,使得有效的蛋白质功能调节和淘汰.

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