A new discovery about protein structure sheds new light on how proteins fold, one of the most basic processes of life.
The findings, announced in Science Advances, will help scientists better understand some important changes that proteins undergo. Biochemists at Oregon State Univ. have made the discovery.
It had previously been thought to be impossible to characterise these changes, in part because the transitions are so incredibly small and fleeting.
The changes relate to how proteins convert from one observable shape to another—and they happen in less than one trillionth of a second, in molecules that are less than one millionth of an inch in size. Prior to this discovery no one had ever observed how they happen.
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