Numerical simulations reveal how protein function is affected by its naturally congested environment
Friday, July 27, 2012 - 09:31
in Physics & Chemistry
The average cell of an organism is a packed environment, filled in particular with proteinsthe workhorse molecules of the cell that are involved in almost every biochemical process taking place within it. A method to understand how this crowded environment affects the way that proteins function has been developed by Ryuhei Harada, at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, and two RIKEN colleagues.