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Nature Chemical Biology 3, 452 - 453 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0807-452
Form finds function
Karen N Allen1
- Karen N. Allen is in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, 715 Albany Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA. e-mail: drkallen@bu.edu
Abstract
Assigning function to uncharacterized enzymes discovered through genome projects has provided a great challenge to the fields of informatics, enzymology and structural biology. Docking potential ligands into flexible models of protein structures and docking potential high-energy intermediates, rather than substrates, into known structures are two new computational approaches that have provided a much-needed boost to the field.
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