Scientists 'watch' as individual alpha-synuclein proteins change shape
Monday, March 16, 2009 - 16:42
in Biology & Nature
In an Early Edition publication of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this week, the researchers demonstrate the "alpha-synuclein dance" - the switching back and forth of the protein between a bent helix and an extended helix as the surface that it is binding to changes.