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Beyond the Black Box: Interactive Global Docking of Protein Complexes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Jochen Heyd  and
Stefan Birmanns
Jochen Heyd
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Houston, School of Health Information Sciences, Houston, Texas
Stefan Birmanns*
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Houston, School of Health Information Sciences, Houston, Texas
*
Stefan.Birmanns@uth.tmc.edu

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A key to understanding the function of biological systems is the visualization of their natural state, ideally in a natural environment. At a molecular level, this is challenging. Traditional experimental techniques, like X-ray crystallography, can provide the atomic structure of proteins, but only by removing them from their native surroundings and forcing them into crystals. Over the past decade, microscopy techniques have emerged as alternatives to these traditional structure determination methods, with the advantage of visualizing molecules in a near-native state. Given the current focus of structural biology on interactions between proteins and better understanding of large protein complexes, cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a valuable tool.

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Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , July 2008 , pp. 6 - 9
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2008

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