Scientists map protein movement
Cornell structural biologists adopted a new strategy for using a great technique for X-ray analysis to catch something the conventional strategy had never represented: the collective movement of proteins. Also, they did as such by making software to painstakingly stitch together the scraps of information that are usually dismissed simultaneously.
Their paper, "Diffuse X-ray Scattering from Correlated Motions in a Protein Crystal," published March 9 in Nature Communications.
As a structural biologist, Nozomi Ando, M.S. '04, Ph.D. '08, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, is keen on charting the movement of proteins, and their internal parts, to more readily comprehend protein function. This sort of movement is notable yet has been hard to document because the stand...