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Article: In Silico Techniques Tell How the Protein Turns.
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- Genomics and Proteomics
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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By Elizabeth Tolchin, Reed Life Science News Editor
Computational methods that can predict the structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence are improving. Developers of such programs say that the technology may one day completely supplant experimental structure determination.
The biological function of a protein is dependent on the protein folding into the correct structure. Predicting the structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence was once considered a distant goal. For this reason, researchers determine protein structures experimentally by X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), both laborious processes.
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