Re:Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
by telchar on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:17PM
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Interesting, thanks!
Re:Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
by appearsonline on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:10PM
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Thanks!
Most people would say that covalent bonds hold the protein together and they dominate the overall structure- for example, you wouldn't ever see a strained covalent bond, so you can easily eliminate all structures with strained bonds. This was long an assumption. However, work I did at Google using Exacycle demonstrated that, in fact, large collections of hydrogen bonds can in fact work in concert to stabilize proteins with strained covalent bonds (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pro.2389/full), which overturned the assumption, and made a modest contribution to the prediction of protein folds, and protein design.