Designed Proteins To Modulate Cellular Networks
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Designed proteins to modulate cellular networks.
A major challenge of protein design is to create useful new proteins that interact specifically with biological targets in living cells. Such binding modules have many potential applications, including the targeted perturbation of protein networks. As a general approach to create such modules, we designed a library with approximately 10(9) different binding specificities based on a small 3-tetr...
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عنوان ژورنال: ACS Chemical Biology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1554-8929,1554-8937
DOI: 10.1021/cb9002464