conformation
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Researchers are encouraged by this because the outward-facing form of MurJ is exposed to the surrounding environment, which could make it more accessible to future drugs than a conformation that faces inward.
From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026
Some fans have received conformation of their success in the ticket ballot, with fans taking to TikTok to share their joy.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
Intrinsically disordered proteins naturally change their 3-D conformation to interact with different proteins, nucleic acids or other molecules.
From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024
Previous studies have shown that mammalian cells express several hundreds of molecular chaperones, proteins that preserve or change the three-dimensional conformation of existing proteins.
From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024
About a year before that triumph, Bragg, Kendrew, and Perutz had published a systematic paper on the conformation of the polypeptide chain, an attack that missed the point.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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