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I'll bite.. what are the huge implications?
by telchar 9y ago
I'll bite.. what are the huge implications?
- sudhirj 9y agoCould striking a match be viewed as cutting paper?
- dekhn 9y agono, that's combustion, clearly a chemical reaction. Sure, you can use a laser to cut paper, but the teacher was talking about scissors.
- mikepalmer 9y agoAnd... what are the huge implications??
- appearsonline 9y agoCome on dekhn, we want to know
- dekhn 9y agoOK, sure. One of the most interesting long-running issues in proteins is how they adopt their 3D structure and remain stable for such long periods. 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 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.
- telchar 9y agoInteresting, thanks!
- appearsonline 9y agoThanks!