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NMR insights into protein allostery
NMR insights into protein allostery
15 March 2012
Publication year: 2012
Source:Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Volume 519, Issue 2</br>
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Allosterism is one of nature’s principal methods for regulating protein function. Allosterism utilizes ligand binding at one site to regulate the function of the protein by modulating the structure and dynamics of a distant binding site. In this review, we first survey solution NMR techniques and how they may be applied to the study of allostery. Subsequently, we describe several examples of application of NMR to protein...
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[NMR paper] Insights into protein folding from NMR.
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