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Bioinformatic And Biophysical Analyses Of Proteins, Jonathan Catazaro
Bioinformatic And Biophysical Analyses Of Proteins, Jonathan Catazaro
Department of Chemistry: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The prevailing dogma in structural genomics is the existence of a strong correlation between protein sequence, structure, and biological function. Proteins with high sequence similarity typically have a similar, if not the same, structure and function. In many cases this logic can fail due to distantly related proteins having very low sequence similarity, a lack of a representative structure, structural novelty, or the absence of a characterized function. Further, the paradigm fails to account for dynamics, which have a significant effect on structural stability and enzymatic efficacy.
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is uniquely capable of solving the structure, assisting …