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Rebuilt AAA + motors reveal operating principles for ATP-fuelled machines.
Nature - 20 Oct 2005
Martin Andreas, Baker Tania A, Sauer Robert T
Abstract excerpt
Hexameric ring-shaped ATPases of the AAA + (for ATPases associated with various cellular activities) superfamily power cellular processes in which macromolecular structures and complexes are dismantled or denatured, but the mechanisms used by these machine-like enzymes are poorly understood. By covalently linking active and inactive subunits of the ATPase ClpX to form hexamers, here we show that diverse geometric...
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