The field of protein dynamics and allosteric regulation explores how proteins, far from being rigid entities, exhibit a wide range of motions that are integral to their function. These molecular ...

Fluorogenic DNA aptamers produce light only in the correct structural state, enabling programmable molecular logic, ...

Enzymes in multistep metabolic pathways utilize an array of regulatory mechanisms to maintain a delicate homeostasis [K. Magnuson, S. Jackowski, C. O. Rock, J. E. Cronan, Jr, Microbiol. Rev. 57, ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 34 (Aug. 25, 2009), pp. 14253-14258 (6 pages) Allosteric regulation provides highly specific ligand ...

In a milestone for protein engineering, researchers have designed from scratch a protein that exhibits allosteric regulation. With allostery, binding at one site of a protein affects binding or ...

The photosynthetic systems of green plants have developed a dual function of efficient light collection under low light intensity and photoprotection under intense sunshine to prevent the oxidative ...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital structural biologists have deciphered how the structure of the enzyme called Abl regulates its activity, enabling the enzyme to switch itself on and off.