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The origami of thioredoxin-like folds.
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society - 1 Oct 2006
Pan Jonathan L, Bardwell James C A
Abstract excerpt
Origami is the Japanese art of folding a piece of paper into complex shapes and forms. Much like origami of paper, Nature has used conserved protein folds to engineer proteins for a particular task. An example of a protein family, which has been used by Nature numerous times, is the thioredoxin superfamily. Proteins in the thioredoxin superfamily are all structured with a beta-sheet core surrounded with...
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