Lymphotactin: How a protein can adopt two folds
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Lymphotactin: how a protein can adopt two folds.
Metamorphic proteins such as lymphotactin are a notable exception of the empirical principle that structured natural proteins possess a unique three-dimensional structure. In particular, the human chemokine lymphotactin protein exists in two distinct conformations (one monomeric and one dimeric) under physiological conditions. In this work, we use a C(alpha) Go model to show how this very pecul...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.3276284