St. Jude Shows How Disorderliness In Some Proteins Lets Them Interact With A Diversity Of Molecules

Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have demonstrated for the first time that--contrary to the long-held belief among scientists that proteins must maintain a rigid structure in order to perform an assigned task--many proteins actually exploit disorderliness in their structure to perform a variety of different jobs. The findings of this research appear in the current, online issue of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.