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TU Dortmund
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News:
7/1/2023
It's All About Dynamics
challenge.” Movements are often a hindrance to decoding the three-dimensional structure of proteins. For traditional methods of structural analysis, the proteins under examination are therefore usually examined [...] Proteins carry out a variety of tasks in our bodies. They give our cells structure and allow them to move, transport metabolic products, determine our responses to diseases and, as enzymes, catalyze numerous [...] carry out these tasks by flexibly changing their shape – for instance, to identify certain target structures or to bind to reactants. “If we want to understand how proteins work, these dynamics are essential …