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Protein hinges for bioelectronics

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Changes in protein conformation have been exploited to create chemoresponsive bioelectronic sensors.

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Figure 1: Allosterically controlled electrochemical transduction of the binding of maltose to the maltose-binding protein by the “hinging” mechanism.

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