Proteins stepping on 'landmines': How they survive the immense heat they create
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 13:30
in Physics & Chemistry
How do some proteins survive the extreme heat generated when they catalyze reactions that can happen as many as a million times per second? Work by researchers from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the University of California Berkeley published online on Dec. 10 in Nature provides an explosive answer to this important question.