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Science 11 July 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5323, p. 179
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5323.179
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PROTEIN STRUCTURE:
Amino Acid Alchemy Transmutes Sheets to Coils

Robert F. Service

A group of biochemists has succeeded in converting the three-dimensional structure of a small protein from one that resembles a sheet with four flat strips lying side by side to another that resembles a collection of four helical telephone cords bunched together. They did so by altering just half the protein's amino acids—an unexpectedly small number.

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