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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

The application of concepts derived from protein folding to the analysis of protein-DNA interactions provides the basis of an ‘induced fit’ model for sequence-specific DNA binding.

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Burley, S. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Nat Struct Mol Biol 1, 207–208 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb0494-207

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