Protein molecules in solution exist as an equilibrium of different conformations, but the sizes and shifts of these populations cannot be determined from static structures. A report now shows how they can be measured in solution.
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Bernadó, P., Blackledge, M. Proteins in dynamic equilibrium. Nature 468, 1046–1048 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4681046a
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