How to design a protein that can be switched on and off

A. Joshua Wand ()

Nature, 2024, vol. 632, issue 8026, 741-742

Abstract: Proteins have been designed that assemble in different ways depending on whether an ‘effector’ molecule is present — a demonstration of allostery, the phenomenon that enables switch-like control of protein functions in nature.

Keywords: Biochemistry; Computational biology and bioinformatics; Chemical biology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-02242-7

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