On the Emergence of Orientational Order in Folded Proteins with Implications for Allostery

The beautiful structures of single- and multi-domain proteins are clearly ordered in some fashion but cannot be readily classified using group theory methods that are successfully used to describe periodic crystals. For this reason, protein structures are considered to be aperiodic, and may have evo...

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Main Authors: Debayan Chakraborty, Mauro Lorenzo Mugnai, D. Thirumalai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-04-01
Series:Symmetry
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/5/770